How America’s Diet Is Feeding the Groundwater Crisis
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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.

  • derf82@lemmy.worldEnglish
    102·
    11 months ago

    Produce less people. Reducing the per person carbon production is meaningless when we keep adding people. In 1950, there way 1/3rd less people and less than half the number of Americans.

    We have eaten animal protein for millennia. It was instrumental to our evolution. It’s only a problem now that we have way too many people

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
      32·
      11 months ago

      We’re already reducing population. In order to stave off disaster without atrocity we will need to accept lifestyle changes. Groundwater issues are a problem now, not in a generation. And there have been vegans and vegetarians for millennia too.