• Reeek@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    One of many reasons I’ve reduce my meat consumption. Its too hard for me to give it up completely I just hope LAB grown meat becomes more available for all our sakes

  • alphapro784@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Isn’t it alfalfa that’s literally using up a very significant amount of the already very scarce water resources in the Southwest?

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      1 year ago

      Yep that’s mainly what this meme is referring to. See my other comment on this post with a source talking about how it’s the leading cause of water usage

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      1 year ago

      More than just Arizona, this is true of almost the entire American West

      >Correspondingly, our hydrologic modelling reveals that cattle-feed irrigation is the leading driver of flow depletion in one-third of all western US sub-watersheds; cattle-feed irrigation accounts for an average of 75% of all consumptive use in these 369 sub-watersheds. During drought years (that is, the driest 10% of years), more than one-quarter of all rivers in the western US are depleted by more than 75% during summer months (Fig. 2 and Supplementary Fig. 2) and cattle-feed irrigation is the largest water use in more than half of these heavily depleted rivers

      https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1064&context=wffdocs