Water usage and beef steak
LINK :
https://www.yahoo.com/food/the-shocking-amount-of-water-that-goes-into-an-119294019621.html
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The answer will alarm you. The video starts broadly a single beef cattle eats 451 gallons worth of water in its feed each day. Then theres 5 gallons a day of drinking and cleaning water.
That ads up to 499,021 gallons over the course of its lifetime. Divide that by the average number of pieces of 8-ounce steak that come from the average cattle, and you have a very startling figure that might make you think twice before ordering another steak.
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Californians share a lot of the blame for their own drought . If they refuse to change their agricultural practices why should they rest of us get the blame for so-called climate change issues ? Answer : we shouldn't .
Wait a second. I love beefsteak. I'm not in California so is it okay for me to continue to eat it? As it happens I rarely do - very few chefs know how to cut and broil or bbq it here.
Beef is a very wasteful food source . If your local economy and climate can support it then go for it . But if not , blame yourself for the resulting drought , not the rest of us !
Did I blame anyone for the drought?
Well ... no , not you . But people in Cali are happy to share the blame by whining about high CO2 levels . Do you expect Gov. Brown will be talking about this issue or about CO2 ? I'm betting on CO2 .
This is true. In general, it seems like Californians are happy to let everybody else shoulder the burden of their wastefulness and callous disregard for their excessive resource usage and poor resource management.
Good article Petey, and I agree with most of it!
California has got to change their agricultural practices. Thank God we have water... I can eat beef without feeling guilty!
It's all about being the biggest state economy . Who cares about the consequences ? There are other states that can deal with the environmental consequences much better ... but will the Cali ag industry pull back ? Seems unlikely ...
I find that putting BBQ sauce on everything has the same effect on the palate but without the environmental consequences ...
BBQ sauce on sardines ? YES !
I agree.
EW! I am not fond of sardines, with our without barbeQ sauce! Come to KY, Petey, I'll buy you a steak!
If you don't try them with BBQ sauce you'll never know ... but thanks for the offer .
Until I hear Gov Jerry Brown speak on this particular issue I will continue to think of him as a hopeless propagandist . CO2 , my ass !
Avoiding the utilitarian viewpoint with fiction :
What If The Drought Doesn't End? 'The Water Knife' Is One Possibility
What if the devastating drought in the western U.S. doesn't end? A few years ago, the science fiction writer Paolo Bacigalupi started exploring what could happen.
" Lake Powell and Lake Mead were hitting historic lows, and they weren't re-filling the way they were supposed to. Las Vegas was, in fact, digging deeper and deeper intakes into Lake Mead," he remembers. "This question of scarcity. This question of too many people needing too little water."
Those questions inspired Bacigalupi to write The Water Knife, a noir-ish, cinematic thriller set in the midst of a water war between Las Vegas and Phoenix. The novel follows three people: a climate refugee, a journalist, and a "water knife" a secret agent for Las Vegas's ruthless water czar. Think Chinatown meets Mad Max.
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As drought-stricken Californians came under orders to curb urban water use up to 36 percent in some communities, thank you very much Gov. Jerry Brown all eyes turned to farmers. When it takes a gallon of water to produce a single almond, how could they not face a similar mandate, many wondered?
If folks are apable, they should grow as much of their own food, and keep everything as local, as possible. Nuts, veggies, berries, fruit....arequitenutrient dense.
When the article mentions beef steak they are not referring to a variety of tomatoes ...
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