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<blockquote data-quote="HDRider" data-source="post: 1089116" data-attributes="member: 17025"><p>Meat production also consumes a huge amount of water – it takes 15,415 litres to produce 1kg of beef, according to the UK's Institute of Mechanical Engineers, which is just one reason that the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation says: "The livestock sector emerges as one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global."</p><p></p><p>Farming is one of the main causes of land clearance and deforestation, a huge contributor to climate change, while overuse of fertiliser causes eutrophication – too many nutrients in water that reduce the amount of oxygen available for marine life and reduce water quality – as well as dead zones in coastal areas and degradation of coral reefs.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/mikescott/2013/12/30/farmers-need-to-focus-on-what-goes-in-as-well-as-what-comes-out/" target="_blank">http://www.forbes.com/sites/mikescott/2 ... comes-out/</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HDRider, post: 1089116, member: 17025"] Meat production also consumes a huge amount of water – it takes 15,415 litres to produce 1kg of beef, according to the UK’s Institute of Mechanical Engineers, which is just one reason that the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation says: “The livestock sector emerges as one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global.” Farming is one of the main causes of land clearance and deforestation, a huge contributor to climate change, while overuse of fertiliser causes eutrophication – too many nutrients in water that reduce the amount of oxygen available for marine life and reduce water quality – as well as dead zones in coastal areas and degradation of coral reefs. [url=http://www.forbes.com/sites/mikescott/2013/12/30/farmers-need-to-focus-on-what-goes-in-as-well-as-what-comes-out/]http://www.forbes.com/sites/mikescott/2 ... comes-out/[/url] [/QUOTE]
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