Would you change one meal and save over 300 gallons of water and even a human’s life?
Meat takes a lot of water to produce. From the water needed to grow the food animals eat, to the sheer amount of water animals drink on a daily basis, it is pretty safe to say, meat has a large water footprint. It takes over 400 gallons of water to produce a quarter pound hamburger. According to the American Meat Institute, in 2012 America produced 26 billion pounds of beef. So it took roughly 56 trillion gallons of water to produce beef in 2012.
One beef cow eats 30-40 lbs of feed, and drinks 30-50 gallons of water daily. In warmer temperatures, they can drink almost twice that amount and would be fed more, to speed up their growth rate. They continue to do that for 13-14 months before they are slaughtered for a hamburger. After they are killed, they are then bathed in even more water to remove bacteria from the carcass.
In some cases when cattle drink from public water supplies, their feces can contaminate the water and cause human fatalities. A number of high-profile cases of drinking water wells tainted by cow manure have been reported to cause the hospitalization and death of hundreds of people around the world. A high dose of animal waste in surface waters can also cause algal blooms that kill fish and other marine life. Over 17 million pounds of fertilizer used to grow food for cattle flows into, lakes, rivers, and oceans, to cause algae blooms which kills marine life.
So Choose Aqua Burger...
Aqua Burgers uses ingredients that take less water to produce! For a family of four, replacing one family dinner with Aqua Burgers can save over 1000 gallons of water!
Meat takes a lot of water to produce. From the water needed to grow the food animals eat, to the sheer amount of water animals drink on a daily basis, it is pretty safe to say, meat has a large water footprint. It takes over 400 gallons of water to produce a quarter pound hamburger. According to the American Meat Institute, in 2012 America produced 26 billion pounds of beef. So it took roughly 56 trillion gallons of water to produce beef in 2012.
One beef cow eats 30-40 lbs of feed, and drinks 30-50 gallons of water daily. In warmer temperatures, they can drink almost twice that amount and would be fed more, to speed up their growth rate. They continue to do that for 13-14 months before they are slaughtered for a hamburger. After they are killed, they are then bathed in even more water to remove bacteria from the carcass.
In some cases when cattle drink from public water supplies, their feces can contaminate the water and cause human fatalities. A number of high-profile cases of drinking water wells tainted by cow manure have been reported to cause the hospitalization and death of hundreds of people around the world. A high dose of animal waste in surface waters can also cause algal blooms that kill fish and other marine life. Over 17 million pounds of fertilizer used to grow food for cattle flows into, lakes, rivers, and oceans, to cause algae blooms which kills marine life.
So Choose Aqua Burger...
Aqua Burgers uses ingredients that take less water to produce! For a family of four, replacing one family dinner with Aqua Burgers can save over 1000 gallons of water!