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<blockquote data-quote="CottageFarm" data-source="post: 1255951" data-attributes="member: 16552"><p>I'm enjoying a mimosa too much to work out all the math right now. </p><p>But with some simple calculations, using fairly conservative input data...that would mean than an 18 month old steer, that yields 200 lbs of burger (and absolutely nothing else is produced from the carcass), producing 600 1/3 lb hamburgers, is responsible for consuming/utilizing 600 gallons of water per day of his existence. Even if one were to figure all of his feed was grown with irrigated water (as opposed to rainfall supplied), and he never ate a single blade of green grass, I still can't see it working out to that number. But I'm sure someone, somewhere was able to justify, at least in their own warped mind, that figure they came up with. </p><p></p><p>Of course, theres a lot more to a burger than just that steer. Maybe they were also calculating in the cost of the wheat, tomatoes, lettuce, cheese, mustard seed, the ranchers household, the farmers households, etc, etc, the drivers of the trucks, the grocery store employees, etc, etc, ....I think you get the idea. </p><p></p><p>Initial question aside for a moment, even IF it were true, what would they prefer be done with that water?? Suburban lawns?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CottageFarm, post: 1255951, member: 16552"] I'm enjoying a mimosa too much to work out all the math right now. But with some simple calculations, using fairly conservative input data...that would mean than an 18 month old steer, that yields 200 lbs of burger (and absolutely nothing else is produced from the carcass), producing 600 1/3 lb hamburgers, is responsible for consuming/utilizing 600 gallons of water per day of his existence. Even if one were to figure all of his feed was grown with irrigated water (as opposed to rainfall supplied), and he never ate a single blade of green grass, I still can't see it working out to that number. But I'm sure someone, somewhere was able to justify, at least in their own warped mind, that figure they came up with. Of course, theres a lot more to a burger than just that steer. Maybe they were also calculating in the cost of the wheat, tomatoes, lettuce, cheese, mustard seed, the ranchers household, the farmers households, etc, etc, the drivers of the trucks, the grocery store employees, etc, etc, ....I think you get the idea. Initial question aside for a moment, even IF it were true, what would they prefer be done with that water?? Suburban lawns? [/QUOTE]
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