Why do I keep buying ribeyes when ...

[whoman69]

Originally Posted by Saccopoo

It really should be about the single most precious natural resource on the planet - clean water.

It takes approximately 2,500 gallons of water to produce one pound of beef. That's ten ****ing tons. Think about that the next time you have a steak. Ten ****ing tons of water for one pound of beef.


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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.

[Coogs]

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.

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?

[Baby Lee]

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.

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?

When you dig deep into BS figures like this, you kind out they count things like the steam in the turbine that provides electricity to the cattle feed processing plant.

[Pablo]

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?

Never trust a man that doesn't enjoy red meat, booze, or sex with women.

I'm pretty sure he swore off all three in a separate thread. Although, I'd have to think without red meat and women, he'd at least enjoy a drink from time to time.

Maybe not. Guy just gets his rocks off watching Mormon football. Although I doubt he touches himself while watching Chuckie Keaton. Self discipline and all.

[Hoopsdoc]

Originally Posted by Pablo

Never trust a man that doesn't enjoy red meat, booze, or sex with women.

I'm pretty sure he swore off all three in a separate thread. Although, I'd have to think without red meat and women, he'd at least enjoy a drink from time to time.

Maybe not. Guy just gets his rocks off watching Mormon football. Although I doubt he touches himself while watching Chuckie Keaton. Self discipline and all.

Words to live by in bold

Also, leave me a T-Bone. I'm a man who likes having a bone to knaw on after my meals.

Wait, that doesn't sound right......

[Anyong Bluth]

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.

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?

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.

[Saccopoo]

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.

Exactly. It's why the vast majority of the rest of the world doesn't consume beef. But your thought process comes about from your societal immersion in the land of milk and honey, where four door dualie pickup trucks and aircraft carriers are the accepted norm. Who gives a flying **** if we are sucking up all the worlds fresh water? We got mother ****ing hamburgers, yo!

http://michaelbluejay.com/veg/environment.html

Meat production requires so much water it's hard to comprehend. As the chart shows, a pound of potatoes takes 99.6% less water to produce than a pound of beef, and 97% less than a pound of chicken.

Earlier we said that going meatless makes a bigger impact than any other action you can take. Here's an example: If you gave up showering, you'd save less water than what's required to make a single pound of beef. Not beef for a whole year, just one miserable pound. A whole year's worth of showers takes about 5,200 gallons, but it takes 5,214 gallons to produce a single pound of beef.

http://www.waterfootprint.org/?page=...y&product=beef

The global water footprint of beef production in the period 1996-2005 was about 800 billion m3/yr, which was one third of the total water footprint of animal production in the world (all farm animals) (Mekonnen and Hoekstra, 2010, 2012).

http://www.gracelinks.org/blog/1143/...ter-footprints

When a Prince talks farming, you listen. This is nothing new for the GRACE food program folks, but as the "water guy," that’s all I could think about shortly after reading Chris Hunt’s roundup (or "knowledge dump") of the speakers and themes from May’s Future of Food conference. The "Prince" in question is sadly not his Purple Majesty but rather, Charles, the Prince of Wales, who issued a stern warning –and in the process stirred up a long simmering debate among Americans – that resonated with me because of its virtual water conservation message: Beef production and consumption are water intensive and a drain on our world water supplies.

According to His Royal Highness:

In a country like the United States, a fifth of all your grain production is dependent upon irrigation. For every pound of beef produced in the industrial system, it takes two thousand gallons of water. That is a lot of water and there is plenty of evidence that the Earth cannot keep up with the demand.

Quite resounding, old chap! While it’s a well-established fact that meat production requires more water than fruits, vegetables or grains, an average water footprint of 2,000 gallons per pound of beef is enormous indeed. You might be wondering how the water footprint of meat – using Prince Charles’s statistic – compares to the water footprints of other agricultural products

Water required to produce one pound (1 lb.) of:
•Pork = 576 gallons of water
•Chicken = 468 gallons of water
•Soybeans = 206 gallons of water
•Wheat = 138 gallons of water
•Corn = 108 gallons of water

[DeezNutz]

Originally Posted by Saccopoo

We got mother ****ing hamburgers, yo!

Thank you. That does sound good. Just took some beef out of the freezer. Incorporate a little cherry wood and a high-quality bun...and money.

[Simply Red]

Originally Posted by DeezNutz

Thank you. That does sound good. Just took some beef out of the freezer. Incorporate a little cherry wood and a high-quality bun...and money.

I agree DeezNutz. I like a little hardwood accent in a burger. Really helps the cause.

[Pablo]

Originally Posted by DeezNutz

Thank you. That does sound good. Just took some beef out of the freezer. Incorporate a little cherry wood and a high-quality bun...and money.

Spend a couple of minutes weeping for the world's water supply as you're cooking that bad boy.

[DeezNutz]

Originally Posted by Pablo

Spend a couple of minutes weeping for the world's water supply as you're cooking that bad boy.

I'll try to squeeze some of the excess water into my bourbon, just so it doesn't go to waste, and that's a ****ing sacrifice; I hate tainting perfectly good liquor.

[Pablo]

Originally Posted by DeezNutz

I'll try to squeeze some of the excess water into my bourbon, just so it doesn't go to waste, and that's a ****ing sacrifice; I hate tainting perfectly good liquor.

The things you do for the good of our planet and mankind, Deez.

I'm giving you a standing ovation. I had a good cry this morning when I woke up and found the woman was making a roast today. Such senseless indulgence in beef products always gets me right in the feels.

[Baby Lee]

Originally Posted by Pablo

The things you do for the good of our planet and mankind, Deez.

I'm giving you a standing ovation. I had a good cry this morning when I woke up and found the woman was making a roast today. Such senseless indulgence in beef products always gets me right in the feels.

I'm just going to go ahead and assume you shed those tears over a rainwater reclamation barrel.

[Anyong Bluth]

Originally Posted by DeezNutz

I'll try to squeeze some of the excess water into my bourbon, just so it doesn't go to waste, and that's a ****ing sacrifice; I hate tainting perfectly good liquor.

I do my part for water conservation with my bourbon by always ordering it neat.

[Saccopoo]

Originally Posted by DeezNutz

Thank you. That does sound good. Just took some beef out of the freezer. Incorporate a little cherry wood and a high-quality bun...and money.