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1 kilo meat = 15 000 litres of water

Tuesday, 8 January, 2008
By Simon Leufstedt

Did you know that it takes 15 000 litres of water to produce one kilo meat from an animal who is being feed with grains. 1500 litres of water is needed to produce one kilo of grains.

Read more over at UN’s World Water Day website.

Simon Leufstedt is the editor of Green Blog. Simon has previously studied Global Environmental Justice and is currently studying Human Ecology and Political Science at Lund University in Sweden. Simon is also blogging over at the Swedish 350 website and working with the Swedish TckTckTck organisation. You can follow Simon on Twitter and on Google+.
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Tessa

Thanks for the info! Is it possible to send me more facts such as: it takes 15 000 litres of water to produce one kilo meat from an animal who is being feed with grains. 150 litres of water is needed to produce one kilo of grains??? Best Regards
californiaflip

that doesn't make sense, you' re saying the animal needs to eat 100 kilos of grain to gain 1 kilo of body mass. i think the figure is 1500 liters for 1 kilo of meat.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FFGBWSVCFEPYHWHB6TDP2VFEJQ nick

I vow to eat less meat. Soon, I will give it up completely.
There's a lot of things I'm going to try out from this big list I found:
http://www.infobarrel.com/How_to_Conserve_Water

Thanks for the post!
Regnig

From American Journal of Clinical Nutrition: “Sustainability of meat-based and plant-based diets and the environment“

Quotes:

~ “The major threat to future survival and to U.S. natural resources is rapid population growth …

~ The average fossil energy input for all the animal protein production
systems studied… is more than 11 times greater than that for grain
protein production …

~ Producing 1 kg of animal protein requires about 100 times more water than producing 1 kg of grain protein …

~ On rangeland for forage production, more than 200,000 liters of water are needed to produce 1 kg of beef …

~ Producing 1 kg of fresh beef may require about 13 kg of grain and 30 kg of hay …

~ The amount of grains fed to US livestock is sufficient to feed about 840 million people who follow a plant-based diet [that's 2.6 times present population] …
Source AJCN, Vol. 78, No. 3, 660S-663S, September 2003; http://www.ajcn.org/content/78/3/660S.full

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