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Re:Green gold: Avocado farming on the rise in Africa by ufo on Sunday May 02, 2021 @06:53PM (#27019806)
IIRC most of the water used to produce meat goes into producing the animal feed.
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Re:Green gold: Avocado farming on the rise in Africa by xyzzyz on Sunday May 02, 2021 @06:58PM (#27019856)
Yes, and most animal feed is human inedible stuff like grass and corn stalks. The water used to produce these is rain water that would fall and drain or evaporate from there either way.
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Re:Green gold: Avocado farming on the rise in Africa by cortesoft on Sunday May 02, 2021 @07:21PM (#27019997)
That isn’t true. Most animal feed is grown with irrigated water.
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Re:Green gold: Avocado farming on the rise in Africa by bluGill on Sunday May 02, 2021 @09:48PM (#27020833)
No,most is grown in the Midwest where there is no irrigation and shipped out. There is irrigation, but it's isn't most animal feed overall.
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Re:Green gold: Avocado farming on the rise in Africa by adrianN on Monday May 03, 2021 @01:25AM (#27021895)
Unfortunately at least some animal feed is human edible soybeans grown where just a short while ago a rainforest stood.
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