Water Loss

More than half of all water used for all purposes in the U.S. is consumed in livestock production.

     --from Pulitzer Prize nominee John Robbins' book
     Diet for a New America.

   100,000 liters of water = 1 kg. Beef

   2,000 liters of water = 1 kg. Soybeans

Grain-fed livestock consume 100,000 liters of water for every kilogram of food they produce, compared with 2,000 liters for soybeans.

Animal protein also demands tremendous expenditures of fossil-fuel energy - eight times as much as for a comparable amount of plant protein. Put another way, says Pimentel, the average omnivore diet burns the equivalent of a gallon of gas per day - twice what it takes to produce a vegan diet.

          Time Magazine, “Should You Be a Vegetarian?”, July 2002