The amount of water in your beef depends where the animal was reared. As such, blanket condemnation of livestock products because they consume a lot of water and are therefore environment unfriendly is unjustified. This was said by Arjen Hoekstra, professor at the University of Twente, the Netherlands.
Hoeskra was addressing researchers and friends of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in a ‘livestock livetak’ at the ILRI campus in Nairobi, on February 7, 2013.
‘In some cases, such as in drylands and some pockets of wetlands, livestock keeping is the only viable option of food production and the water footprint has a low opportunity cost’, Hoekstra said.
Using the scientific colour coding for water – blue, green and grey – Hoekstra said each product has a water footprint but livestock products carry a larger footprint than crops. In the colour coding, the blue water footprint refers to the volume…
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