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Originally Posted by whoman69
I really have to question the veracity of your data. The average cow yields 568 lbs of beef. That is 1,420,000 gallons of water for each cow. That is $2130 spent on each cow. It wouldn't be economically feasible.
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Originally Posted by Coogs
So you are saying you don't think a 2 year old steer that is going to market can average drinking 2,000 gallons of water a day?
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Oh no the math totally works out -
The average weight of beef cattle depending on the type ranges around 1000 to 1050 lbs at 24 months old. So for argument sake we'll use the average of 1025 pounds.
A gallon weighs ~ 8 pounds. Based on the claims of water consumption to 1 pound of beef at 2,000 per day x 8 lbs = 16,000 pounds intaken daily just in water, not even getting into their food consumption.
So it's totally feasible that this would be possible if cows were essentially bovine dialysis machines and constantly drinking and pissing for a majority of the day. A herd of cattle would drown in their collective piss ponds if ever they went grazing on the low plain...
Whoever puts this info out there to dissuade people from eating meat does a disservice, and looks like a fool.
