How does it take over 600 gallons of water to make a single hamburger?

Question

How does it take over 600 gallons of water to make a single hamburger?

In: Biology

Answer 1

The big thing to understand here is that this is mostly rain water.

Growing crops (to feed animals) takes land. Water falls on that land (rain) and is counted as being used to grow that beef.

Is it used? Well, yes. But most goes to the ground. Plus it would still fall out off the sky if you weren’t growing crops to feed cattle. So did that figure make any sense? Not really