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Indeed. Beef actually plays the biggest role. From what I can find, feef requires 106gal/oz while almonds require 23gal/oz. Reducing animal agriculture has s
by drewg123 3y ago
Indeed. Beef actually plays the biggest role. From what I can find, feef requires 106gal/oz while almonds require 23gal/oz. Reducing animal agriculture has so many benefits for the planet.
- andreiii 3y agois not like that water stays within the animal. most of it is back into the natural circuit very quick.
- masklinn 3y agoThe same is true of most crops, almonds contain less than 5% water. The problem is that the water is still pumped out the acquifer, and non-acquifer water is still water which generally becomes unavailable to other uses because it evaporates or is too polluted.
- myshpa 3y agoAnd those pastures and alfalfa fields don't replenish aquifers, forests do.
- someplaceguy 3y agoSure, but more importantly, beef requires only 10.6 gal/taste unit while almonds require 46 gal/taste unit.
- hellisothers 3y agoWhat is a taste unit?
- someplaceguy 3y agoIt's each person's measure of how much you go "hmm...! That was sooo good!" after eating 1 oz of a certain type of food. In that example, 1 oz of beef contains 10 of my taste units while 1 oz of almonds contains 0.5 of my taste units. Since each person's taste units are different, humans have decided that the best way to allocate food is to sell it on something called a "market", where each person can express their own individual taste units, or "preferences", by buying the food on this "market". The price of the food on the market reflects the scarcity of the food and everything it took to produce it, although sometimes there are distortions which should be corrected externally (e.g. by a government), not by restricting the types of food we consume, but by addressing their root causes at the source (e.g. by taxing water consumption to address the tragedy of the commons, or by taxing CO2 production to address global warming). These taxes should be increased up to the point where consumption/pollution becomes sustainable.
- conkeisterdoor 3y agoI love it. I also enjoy beef way more than almonds.
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- ericjmorey 3y agoRaising cattle doesn't generally use water from or divert water from aquifers.
- PaulDavisThe1st 3y agoWhere do you think it comes from, then?
- Ekaros 3y agoSky...
- PaulDavisThe1st 3y agoMost cattle production happens west of the 98th meridian, where not enough water falls from the sky to support livestock or vegetable or fruit production at commercial scale.
- saalweachter 3y agoDepends on the place, depends on the method, depends on the scale. Beef and dairy can be a way to convert grasslands to human-consumable calories or be used to convert overproduction of grains (necessary as insurance against crop failures) into high quality protein, but it can also be a way to degrade marginal ecosystems and convert groundwater into an unhealthy national diet.
- reaperman 3y agoPDCAAS of almonds is 0.44 so gallons per gram of absorbable protein would be 15gal/g for beef vs. 8.7gal/g for almonds.