Imma keep it real with you mate, I really don't get the "water consumption environmental cost" like, of all things being destroyed to make that piece of meat, drinking water is the easier to recover/never run out off.
I'm more worried about piranhas, Bart desertification.
Water is a reuseable resource, like land, but overuse can cause artificial droughts and other problems. EG growing cotton and other water-intensive crops along the Colorado in Arizona needlessly causes periodic drought in California.
Ah yes, we have something like that too in a lot of regions, but the main source of food here are the Pampas where we don't really need irrigation and good water for cattle is found anywhere.
Sure, fertile heartlands have a much higher water "budget" than the steppes etc. Still, I sure hope the Argentinian government knows how much water the agriculture industry uses, and at what level it would start to cause damage to the environment.
Deforestation of the Chaco biome to plant soy for a few years until the soil is totally ruined is a more obvious environmental problem not being addressed, and I really don't think they will address it properly in the near and not so near future :agony-deep:
The market demands it, if the people really wanted not suffer periodical floods and droughts, nor being killed for living for generations where the bulldozers want to go through, they should just pay a better price than soy markets. :ancap-good:
Imma keep it real with you mate, I really don't get the "water consumption environmental cost" like, of all things being destroyed to make that piece of meat, drinking water is the easier to recover/never run out off.
I'm more worried about
piranhas, Bartdesertification.Water is a reuseable resource, like land, but overuse can cause artificial droughts and other problems. EG growing cotton and other water-intensive crops along the Colorado in Arizona needlessly causes periodic drought in California.
Ah yes, we have something like that too in a lot of regions, but the main source of food here are the Pampas where we don't really need irrigation and good water for cattle is found anywhere.
Sure, fertile heartlands have a much higher water "budget" than the steppes etc. Still, I sure hope the Argentinian government knows how much water the agriculture industry uses, and at what level it would start to cause damage to the environment.
Deforestation of the Chaco biome to plant soy for a few years until the soil is totally ruined is a more obvious environmental problem not being addressed, and I really don't think they will address it properly in the near and not so near future :agony-deep:
God, how many people died for land in Chaco, only for them to ruin it for a bit of money. That's fucking grim.
The market demands it, if the people really wanted not suffer periodical floods and droughts, nor being killed for living for generations where the bulldozers want to go through, they should just pay a better price than soy markets. :ancap-good:
The soy is also being fed to cattle.
Fresh water can very much run out in a lot of places, and water overconsumption can contribute to desertification.