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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 2174148" data-attributes="member: 56035"><p><a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/04/world-already-would-be-out-water-if-everyone-ate-americans" target="_blank">This is what would happen if the rest of the world ate the way America does</a></p><p></p><p>If the rest of the world ate like Americans, the planet would have run out of freshwater 15 years ago,...</p><p></p><p>Producing a pound of meat requires a tremendous amount of water because farmers use tons of crops such as corn and soy to feed each animal, which require tens of thousands of gallons of water to grow. It is far more efficient when people eat the corn or soy directly...</p><p></p><p><strong>Global water shortages are just around the corner.</strong> "Nestle thinks one-third of the world's population will be affected by freshwater scarcity by 2025, with the situation only becoming more dire thereafter and potentially catastrophic by 2050."</p><p></p><p><strong>Major regions, including in the United States, are being drained of their underground aquifers.</strong> "Problems with be severest in the Middle East, northern India, northern China, and the western United States."</p><p></p><p><strong>Excessive meat-eating is driving water depletion.</strong> "Nestle starts by pointing out that a calorie of meat requires 10 times as much water to produce as a calorie of food crops.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 2174148, member: 56035"] [URL="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/04/world-already-would-be-out-water-if-everyone-ate-americans"]This is what would happen if the rest of the world ate the way America does[/URL] If the rest of the world ate like Americans, the planet would have run out of freshwater 15 years ago,... Producing a pound of meat requires a tremendous amount of water because farmers use tons of crops such as corn and soy to feed each animal, which require tens of thousands of gallons of water to grow. It is far more efficient when people eat the corn or soy directly... [B]Global water shortages are just around the corner.[/B] "Nestle thinks one-third of the world's population will be affected by freshwater scarcity by 2025, with the situation only becoming more dire thereafter and potentially catastrophic by 2050." [B]Major regions, including in the United States, are being drained of their underground aquifers.[/B] "Problems with be severest in the Middle East, northern India, northern China, and the western United States." [B]Excessive meat-eating is driving water depletion.[/B] "Nestle starts by pointing out that a calorie of meat requires 10 times as much water to produce as a calorie of food crops. [/QUOTE]
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