Beef Cows: The Importance Of Deforestation

There are many misconceptions regarding deforestation and pollution. Beef cattle are often the last that comes to your mind.

Water/food - beef cows use 1000 gallons of water are used to make 1 gallon of milk.
2500 gallons of water are used to produce 1 LB of beef. 77 gallons of water are needed to produce lb of eggs. almost 900 gallons of water are needed to produce 1 lb of cheese. World wide cows drink 45 billion gallons of water per day. Animal agriculture consumes 34-76 trillion gallons of water annually.At 50 degrees a cow many consume 5-7 gallons of water if it was 95 degrees they would drink up to 24 gallons of water. an average quality hay is 24 pounds per head and the hay that they are consuming is 88% dry matter. 1,200 pound cows consume 27 pounds per head per day on an as-fed basis. growing feed crops for livestock consumes 46% of water in the US grass fed is more demanding on the land than grain feed it has more impact on the environment because it takes eight more months for it to be ready to be slaughtered that's more waste and water. It only takes 15 months for grain and 22 month for grass because with grain they get fat faster. the government kills other animals for more land. (wild horses are caught elephants were killed. ) cattle alone eat 45 billions gallons of
it takes 4500 acres to produce 80,000 pounds of meat the average american eats 209 pounds of meat per year. if that was all grass fed beef only 382 people could eat that meat. 11.7 acres per person times 314 mil acres in usa which adds up to 3.7 billion acres to raise enough grass for that year and this is only grass fed beef. we would need 3.9 billion acres unfortunately there are only 1.9 billion acres in the us it would take 3 times the amount. so grass fed beef is not sustainable. there is no way to we could use grass feed all the time. We just don't have enough land to use. even if we did we would still be using it all