How America’s Diet Is Feeding the Groundwater Crisis
www.nytimes.com
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.

  • library_napper@monyet.cc
    123·
    11 months ago

    Why would you possibly think that? When you eat the thing that eats the thing instead of just eating the first thing, obviously its less efficient. In this case, its around 90% less wasted energy to just eat plants than to eat the thing that ate the plants