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>But where does the water go Not back into aquifers, that takes hundreds if not thousands of years. >Also who cares who eats the beef? If you price in the wat
by 303uru 3y ago
>But where does the water go
Not back into aquifers, that takes hundreds if not thousands of years.
>Also who cares who eats the beef? If you price in the water usage
Ya, that's kinda the point, we don't. If we removed the massive subsidies propping up ranching very few people would be consuming beef.
>Don't blame people for enjoying their life
I don't think I did, but as you brought it up. I'll absolutely shame people for having disproportionate impacts on conservation of our natural resources. Boomers especially are leaving the planet a worse place than they inherited and I for one hope younger generations can reverse that trend.
- seoulmetro 3y agoYeah so they're not back into aquifers, but so what. Where is it going if we aren't reusing it? Into the ocean? That is the only reasonable explanation. Unless it's physically leaving Earth which I doubt but also it could be true, who knows. So remove them. Stop crying about cows or the medium, they aren't related to it. It's purely a regulated movement problem. You are talking about who is eating the meat. It is totally irrelevant unless you are there to single them out and blame them. So you're blaming who, the people eating or the "boomers" regulating it so they can eat? Right now it sounds like the people eating. Consumers aren't the problem. If you give people things they enjoy they will consume them, that isn't new science, and so they should.
- I_Am_Nous 3y agoThe main point they are trying to make is the people eating most of the beef are dying off. If the trend holds and younger generations don't drastically increase beef consumption, there just won't be anyone to eat the same amount of beef they are producing currently. Therefore, they will have to reduce beef production which may reduce water used when growing food to feed the cattle as fewer cattle eat less food. So they are pointing out this problem may resolve itself somewhat as the people that industry relies on die out or retire to an income less able to buy steak for every meal.
- seoulmetro 3y agoBut what does all that have to do with anything? It won't resolve itself. Natural products have ebbs and flows. Meat isn't exactly a luxury product.
- I_Am_Nous 3y agoThe way we produce meat is anything but natural these days. That takes its toll on our resources. Far more than growing food directly for humans does.
- seoulmetro 3y agoThe way we produce anything natural is not natural. You're right. That doesn't make it not natural.
- 303uru 3y agoYou seem to be simultaneously unable to read or comprehend and quite upset at something. I will not waste me time trying to explain it a third time.
- seoulmetro 3y agoI'm neither. I'm not sure why you are upset now though. Did you not want me to point out how useless tracking consumers is on something like food?
- peteradio 3y ago> that takes hundreds if not thousands of years. Wut. Where are you getting this from? It takes few decades max.