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Markyboy-
a single pound of beef takes, on average, 1,800 gallons of water.
lb = 0.4kg
thats the equivalent of nearly 10 years of water intake (3.7l) for the average person.
Thrasher
^^ the same could be said for meat too though. Airlifted, not organic, many chemicals. It's not as if we raise a goat in the back yard that eats nothing but grass and underpants.
On a calorie to calorie basis, my guess is that the meat-as-a-product life-cycle produces far more waste that any plant.
^ Similarly, livestock production is a monoculture that relies on mono-cultures to feed it. Oliver mentioned earlier that majority of soy production goes on livestock feed.