I saw an ad for being vegan saying either don’t flush your toilet for 6 months, don’t shower for 3 months or don’t eat a burger once. But isn’t all of our water basically renewable and no matter if we do any of these things, it just goes back into the water cycle and we’ll reuse it eventually, even if we have to clean it somehow? What’s the big deal?
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Alright let me try at this. You have the water the cow drinks. Thousands of gallons in it’s life. The water it takes to grow it’s food, again thousands of gallons. The thousands of gallons the farmer uses on the farm to clean anything. The tens of gallons used in the trucks to haul the cattle from the farm to the auction house to the butcher(if not shipped directly). The cleaning process before butchering (depending on even religious doctrines might use more or way less). The cleaning process after butchering. Then again the truck that brings to the store. So they add up the “calculated” amount and divide by the average size of a burger patty.
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