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It's very easy to forget that we use orders of magnitude more water than comes out of our tap. A pound of beef is about 2,000 gallons, so that would be a nontri
by iudqnolq 3y ago
It's very easy to forget that we use orders of magnitude more water than comes out of our tap. A pound of beef is about 2,000 gallons, so that would be a nontrivial price increase.
- jjk166 3y agoProbably shouldn't be raising cattle in areas that would need desalination to produce those 2000 gallons.
- emptybits 3y agoOr maybe such water-intensive food production should require consumption of the planet's nearly unlimited seawater. Pass the greater expense to the cattle producers and/or consumers. Leave the planet's relatively limited freshwater sources for direct human consumption, or food production that's more sustainable, or other urgent and necessary activities. The beef lobby may not agree.
- infogulch 3y agoAnd what of areas where just having water coming out of a tap at all would be a huge improvement?
- _9hey 3y agoWhat? Are they drowning cows now??