How America’s Diet Is Feeding the Groundwater Crisis
www.nytimes.com
As dinner tables and snack menus feature far more chicken and cheese, farms are expanding where water is scarce.

These transformations are tied to the changing American diet. Since the early 1980s, America’s per-person cheese consumption has doubled, largely in the form of mozzarella-covered pizza pies. And last year, for the first time, the average American ate 100 pounds of chicken, twice the amount 40 years ago.

  • Sybil@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    most of the grain and soy grown in America is grown as feed.

    almost all of the soy grown everywhere (including america) is pressed for oil. the byproduct of that process is called “soymeal” or “soycake” and that is the vast majority of the soy fed to animals. they are eating parts of the plant that people don’t want to.