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Donald Trump claims B.C.’s ‘very large faucet’ could help California’s water woes (globalnews.ca)

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Antweiler added that there is a lot that California can and should do to manage their water sources, including the use of water in agriculture.

One suggestion I would make to California and BC is to limit animal agriculture water use as 1kg of beef uses 15,415 litres of water to produce.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

This is another of those "things that I would like but are pretty unrealistic." If the goal is to cut down on beef, the price would either go up drastically or we'd put farmers into something less lucrative and just import our beef.

Regardless, the public, of whom many if not most eat beef, would be furious. I struggle to see a government that could pass this and last an election without having this overturned by the next government rather quickly.

That being said, it'd be nice. But nice in the same way that everyone being vegetarian and not wearing sweatshop clothes would be nice.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I hate your comment but love your source. There’s no perspective when you say 1 kg of beef uses 15415 L of water to produce. Is that a lot? Is that a little?

Your source puts that into perspective - it’s a lot. But I wish they’d put it into calories/L of water. I don’t eat based on kg of food. I eat based on kcal and nutrition