> For every pound of red meat, poultry, eggs, and milk produced, farm fields
> lose about five pounds of irreplaceable top soil. The water necessary for
> meat breeding comes to about 190 gallons per animal per day, or ten times
> what a normal Indian family is supposed to use in one day, if it gets water
> at all.
Again, similar figures are true for vegetables from industrial ag.
California cotton uses the most water per pound of any type of ag in that
state; more than beef.
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