Skip Showers for Beef

[RufusTFirefly]

Come on, Californians. Let's get our priorities straight. Showers can be pleasant, but factory-farmed beef is a frickin' necessity!

https://m.

http://www.skipshowersforbeef.com

[packman]

1. Can I get dirt credits from this guy?

Hasn't taken a shower/bathed in 60 years. Oh, and he's looking for a wife.


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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/15/amou-haji-iran-hasnt-bathed-60-years_n_4602936.html

[JDPriestly]

2. And, of couse, veggies don't take any water.

I grow veggies and carry buckets of water out to my back yard to water them. Run off from washing veggies, the water I have to run to finally get hot water since my water heater is, as so often in California, outside my house rather than right at the faucet as in so many European countries.

Eat veggies grown without water. That is a great idea.

[RufusTFirefly]

3. I wonder how much water a strawman consumes

No one suggests that growing vegetables doesn't consume water. But beef and dairy use a whopping 47 percent of the state's water.

And, of course, beef cattle are also a significant source of greenhouse gases.

Why is it that people are outraged by almonds but seem to be giving meat and dairy a pass?

AMY GOODMAN: You know, there’s been a lot of discussion about the amount of water it takes to grow almonds. Can you talk about how meat consumption compares to vegetable consumption of water?

KEEGAN KUHN: Absolutely. You know, 10 percent of all water in California is used for almonds, which is a tremendous amount of water. But again, just alfalfa alone, a crop that is not consumed by human beings, that is fed for livestock, consumes 15 percent. California produces 82 percent of the world’s entire almonds. This is—again, 10 percent of California’s water is feeding the 82 percent of the world’s almond demands. And the other important fact is, is that Americans aren’t consuming, and Californians, in particular, aren’t consuming nine ounces of almonds per day, which is not the case for animal agriculture. Animal products, we’re consuming nine ounces per person per day in the United States. Again, the water footprint is vastly greater because of the quantity that we’re actually consuming. It takes about 1,500 gallons of water to produce a pound of almonds, which is a tremendous amount of water. But again, it’s the quantity that we’re actually consuming.

http://www.democracynow.org/2015/4/7/cowspiracy_as_california_faces_drought_film

[JDPriestly]

4. Cattle is grazing on a lot of that land in California because it is economically unfeasible

to do something else with it. In good years, you have water and it isn't a problem.

Work on ending the fracking first.

What would you do with the land the cows are grazing on if you took them off it?

You probably can't grow vegetables and make money on a lot of it.