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I traced the citations back to a pretty thorough report, see [1]. [1] http://www.waterfootprint.org/Reports/Mekonnen-Hoekstra-2012-WaterFootprintFarmAnimalProd

• fishtoaster 12y ago
  I 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.