You should always pause when someone says it takes 10 million gallons of water to grow a chicken nugget without mentioning where that water comes from. /1
Yes, some crops are incredibly water thirsty.
It& #39;s only a potential problem when we grow them in large quantities in areas that don& #39;t have a lot of water. /2
It& #39;s only a potential problem when we grow them in large quantities in areas that don& #39;t have a lot of water. /2
And if you live in a place - ahem the northeast - that& #39;s relatively wet and getting wetter you need plants that can handle a lot of water. /3
I get the desire to say it takes a ton of water to make x. But it matters if that water is rain water that would& #39;ve fallen anyway vs irrigated water from aquifers. /4