How America’s Diet Is Feeding the Groundwater Crisis
www.nytimes.com
As dinner tables and snack menus feature far more chicken and cheese, farms are expanding where water is scarce.

These transformations are tied to the changing American diet. Since the early 1980s, America’s per-person cheese consumption has doubled, largely in the form of mozzarella-covered pizza pies. And last year, for the first time, the average American ate 100 pounds of chicken, twice the amount 40 years ago.

    • StunningGoggles@sh.itjust.works
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      11 months ago

      Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good. Most people aren’t going to stop eating meat, that’s an unrealistic expectation. If you’re telling people that eating chicken over beef isn’t good enough they will shrug their shoulders and go right back to beef.

    • FiveMacs
      1·
      11 months ago

      Same can be said for people having kids too. It’s not necessarily the animals that are the issue but the mass of cancerous humans on this rock consuming things to the extreme. This same issue with fresh veg will happen as well.

      • library_napper@monyet.cc
        1·
        11 months ago

        I dont think you realize thr magnitudes of difference in efficiency between eating plants vs eating animals that eat plants.

        Growing plants for humans to eat is negligible and probably wouldn’t be an issue even if our population exceeds 100 billion