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Especially if water is factored into the equation. https://www.statista.com/chart/9483/how-thirsty-is-our-food/
this is such a great resource to understand why footprints are ridiculous metrics and how interconnected our industrial agriculture systems are.
This is not a great resource, because cows and sheep get 95% of their water intake from eating grass and drinking rain water. But when you grow vegetables, you actually have to water them a lot.
if you follow the citations they call that green water and break it down
That's irrelevant when the first graph shows utter bullshit and people fall for it. Cows don't need water, veggies go.
i think we are in agreement that the methodology for quantifying agricultural impacts is flawed