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Interesting. Do you have a source on that? My 30 seconds of googling turned up 3,682 L per pound of beef (or 145 gallons for 1/3 lb). http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih
by fishtoaster 12y ago
Interesting. Do you have a source on that? My 30 seconds of googling turned up 3,682 L per pound of beef (or 145 gallons for 1/3 lb). http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8478283 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8478283
- mullingitover 12y agoI traced the citations back to a pretty thorough report, see [1]. [1] http://www.waterfootprint.org/Reports/Mekonnen-Hoekstra-2012-WaterFootprintFarmAnimalProducts.pdf http://www.waterfootprint.org/Reports/Mekonnen-Hoekstra-2012...
- fishtoaster 12y agoI may be missing it, but that report doesn't seem to support thousands of gallons per 1/3 lbs. From Table 2, beef requires 7,477 m^3 of water per ton, which comes out to 330 gallons per 1/3 lbs. Table 3 says 15m415 m^3 of water per ton. I'm not entirely sure I understand why that's different from table 2, but that's 678 gallons per 1/3 lbs.