Re:Yup, it’s vegans who have caused the california drought
by tptacek on Wednesday April 08, 2015 @06:18PM
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Ruefully commenting on a story I also flagged, but: chicken takes less water per pound than almonds. Depending on which source you believe, so does pork.
A pound of beef is about half as calorically dense as a pound of almonds, but a half gallon of almond milk also takes a whole pound of almonds, so you have to take into consideration the different ways they're eaten.
>Since I happened to have a pound of almonds in the refrigerator I decided to count up those little water suckers and see how much water it takes to produce a pound of almonds. It was bad. Four hundred and thirty-three gallons of water.
>Four hundred and thirty-three? Wait a minute. How about a pound of beef? (I dare say it’s a lot easier to eat a pound of beef than it is to eat a pound of almonds.) According to the folks at waterfootprint.org it takes between 3,000 and 5,000 gallons of water to produce one pound of beef.