Microblog: Most of the Total Water (98%) Is the Water Footprint of the Feed for Animals

Excerpt from @CarnivoreCure:
📖”Meat production is thought to have a high-water footprint, but this depends on how the animal is raised-grass- or grain-fed matters. Even with high numbers, most of the total water (98%) is the water footprint of the feed for animals. Drinking water, service water, and feed mixing water for the animals account for less than 2 percent.

🌾UC Davis Agricultural and Nutritional Sciences estimate that if half the grain the animal consumed were irrigated, it would require 390 gallons to produce one pound of beef. That figure would drop to 105 gallons if the grain were all non-irrigated and would shoot up to 675 gallons if it were all irrigated. ⠀
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🥜Assuming most of the meat is produced with non-irrigated feed, animal foods are still LOWER than the amount of water required to grow nuts. ⠀

🌵If you see the second graphic, much of California’s agriculture is concentrated in the parts of the state that droughts tend to hit the hardest.

💧Water used in the production of meat is much lower than water used to grow nuts. Ninety-nine percent of all U.S. almonds are grown in drought-prone California. One almond requires nearly 1.1 gallons of water.