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water usage to make a hamburger?

John SD

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Need some :help: here. A friend who is very anti-American agriculture in general, particularly toward the beef industry, sent me an article claiming it took 450 gallons of water to make a hamburger. True or False :?:

IMO, the source is quite questionable and the anti-beef agenda is more than obvious :yeah: I googled and came up with many more questionable sources. Can someone provide a credible source on the topic :?: :idea:

TIA for replies 8)
 

Mike

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It may be true. But I don't care. We are using the exact same water that was used on earth billions of years ago. No water has left our atmosphere and none has been added. We have the same amount as always.

Just because we use it doesn't mean it's gone.
 

John SD

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Good point Mike. There are droughts and there are floods, all over the world, every day.

Things were looking pretty grim here in western SD a month ago :( Didn't look like there would be any hay. Some folks were on the brink of considering some deep cuts :?

I mowed what I mowed 8 days ago over again today. What a difference 8+ inches of precip makes :clap: :clap: :clap: :D :D :D
 

Traveler

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It's important that cattle use as much as water as possible before it gets to the ocean, because it keeps the oceans from rising, which is one of the main concerns of the left. :wink:
 

Tom in TN

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I wonder how much water it would take to raise 1,200 pounds of, say, tomatoes in one year. More or less than a beef?

In the immortal words of Michael Savage, "Liberalism is a mental disorder".

Tom in TN
 

iwannabeacowboy

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There is roughly 28,000 gallons of water per inch of rain on an acre of land. Being that cattle are raised on marginal land, that water is being made use of to feed people it would other wise have gone to complete waste. My question to him John, would be how many gallons of water Calif flushed into the ocean for a dying minnow, or how many people eat the grass on a golf course? And then the average number of gallons per acre a golf course consumes?
 

Steve

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In California’s vast Central Valley, agriculture is king. But the king appears fatally ill, and no worthy replacement is in sight, as the area noticeably reverts into the desert it was little more than a century ago.

Signs line the back roads here that run parallel to wide irrigation ditches:

“Pray for rain”
“No water = No jobs”

Almonds alone use about 10 percent of California’s total water supply each year.

from another liberal source.. I bet granola isn't as nice without the almonds..
 

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