Ice Bucket Challenge a waste of water? Dont make me laugh ;-) March 1, 2001 -- To date, probably the most reliable and widely-accepted water estimate to produce a pound of beef is the figure of 2,500 gallons/pound. Newsweek once put it another way: the water that goes into a 1,000 pound steer would float a destroyer. In 1990, however, the World Hunger Program at Brown University calculated that recent world harvests, if equitably distributed with no diversion of grain to feeding livestock, could provide a vegetarian diet to 6 billion people, whereas a meat-rich diet like that of people in the wealthier nations could support only 2.6 billion. In other words, with a present population over 6 billion, that would mean we are already into deficit consumption of land, with the deficit being made up by hauling more fish from the oceans, which are in turn being rapidly fished out. In the near term, the only way to feed all the world’s people, if we continue to eat meat at the same rate or if the population continues to grow as projected, is to clear more forest. From now on, the question of whether we get our protein from animals or plants has direct implications for how much more of the world’s remaining forest we have to raze. It has been estimated that global meat consumption may double from 2000 to 2050, mostly as a consequence of increasing world population, but also partly because of increased per capita meat consumption (with much of the per capita consumption increase occurring in the developing world).[1] Global production and consumption of poultry meat have recently been growing at more than 5 percent annually.[1] Trends vary among livestock sectors. For example, global per capita consumption of pork has increased recently (almost entirely due to changes in consumption within China), but global per capita consumption of ruminant meats has been declining.[1] ^ According to statistics, there are more veggies together in the world, then the whole EU together, over 600 million that is. Perhaps in these times not only land used for animals in a problem, the superdemand for palm oil is taking consequences with it too, which according to research, is not the palm oil in food, but mainly in shampoo thats causing it. Do your own research. I find you are obligated to Earth for it ;-) greenpeace.org/belgium/nl/nieuws-blogs/nieuws/Een-blik-achter-het-douchegordijn-ontdek-het-vuile-geheim-van-Procter-and-Gamble/ waterfootprint.org/downloads/Poster-A3-WaterFootprint-of-Products.pdf
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