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Re:As Groundwater Dwindles, a Food Shock Looms by miles on Sunday December 25, 2016 @04:30PM (#13255507)
Producing a pound of beef requires 2,000 gallons, vs 138 gallons for a pound of wheat: http://www.gracelinks.org/blog/1143/beef-the-king-of-the-big...
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Re:As Groundwater Dwindles, a Food Shock Looms by d0mine on Sunday December 25, 2016 @04:52PM (#13255580)
I see numbers from 441 to ~12,000 gallons that does not inspire confidence in the estimation methods.

No doubt beef requires much more water than wheat but let's not oversimplify.

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Re:As Groundwater Dwindles, a Food Shock Looms by holyOrIonsBelt on Sunday December 25, 2016 @10:41PM (#13256805)
The cow also walks to the water, the wheat, not so much. Plus, milk.

Does wheat produce a sugar laden liquid that can be replenished by the cow every few days that is macrobiotic as all get out?

And yes, I know about beer.

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Re:As Groundwater Dwindles, a Food Shock Looms by tzs on Monday December 26, 2016 @12:08AM (#13257030)
It's not clear to me that such numbers are meaningful, because most of that water does not stay in the cow. It is just temporarily in the cow, and should eventually become available for other uses.
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