How Much Water To Create One Beef Patty??

At first it may be hard to visualise where all the water is going to create/generate one beef patty. The numbers are actually astounding. If these numbers and facts that im about to discuss don't make you second guess your food choices for the sake of OUR planet, then hopefully you'll second guess it for your own health.

 Beef = 15415 L/kg
Banana= 790L/kg
Sheep meat= 10412 L/kg
Rice = ~2497 L/kg
Egg= 196L for one 60g egg
cucumber & pumpkin = 353L/kg
Cheese= 3178 L /kg
Butter= 5553 L/kg
Cabbage = 237 L/kg
Wine = 109 L/ 125ml glass

You can see the ranges of water consumption for various products that are used by most people in their every day life.

Ill explain where all the water goes to get a beef patty because the numbers are obviously dangerously different when compared to a fruit or vegetable.

Since your beef was once a living being it needed 3 essentials: water, food and sunlight. They may not of necessarily got proper sunlight but I'm sure they got hormones in replace of sunlight (feeling sassy).
 Majority of the crops are grown abroad in South America where a lot the rainforests have been cleared to grow the soy crops to feed our cows, chickens, and pigs and any other farmed animal.
The cow will consume around 1300kg of grain (oats, barley, corn, peas, soy, wheat) around 7200kg of that they feed off of roughage such as dry hay, pasture, silage and others like grass)

Water is needed to grow the crop. Its so hard to actually visualize and understand the huge impact this has on our planet because if we take the number of cattle in North America and each cow needs 1300kg of grains that is going to be A LOT of rainforest destruction and A LOT of water to grow.  The scariest part of all this is that we are literally self destructing OUR planet. Because by consuming meat and dairy not only does it wreck our eco-system, it wrecks our own health. We are destroying and evolving poorly of the human race. We are creating an environment for disease and illness.

And we haven't even talked about the amount of methane that is produced. Because I'm sure we all know that when you eat large amounts of food, it all has to come out and go somewhere. By somewhere I mean our air and our ozone layer.

Knowing what you know, please make a smart and helpful decision for YOU.

Water footprint gallery:
 http://waterfootprint.org/en/resources/interactive-tools/product-gallery/





Recources:

http://www.cat.org.uk/education/pdf/how_much_water_does_it_take_to_make_a_burger.pdf

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/indianews/article-2324538/VISUAL-EDIT-Your-water-footprint-.html