Quotation for your Meditation
“Nearly one-third of the total water footprint of agriculture in the world is related to the production of animal products. The water footprint of any animal product is larger than the water footprint of crop products with equivalent nutritional value. The average water footprint per calorie for beef is 20 times larger than for cereals and starchy roots…..Animal products from industrial systems {e.g., corporate agriculture} generally consume and pollute more ground- and surface-water resources than animal products from grazing or mixed systems. The rising global meat consumption and the intensification of animal production systems will put further pressure on the global freshwater resources in the coming decades.” A Global Assessment of the Water Footprint of Farm Animal Products(https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10021-011-9517-8