Why Should I Eat Less Meat? #3 Meat Drains Our Drinking Water
OutdoorUAE|January 2018

This is the third part of our series of articles which should hopefully encourage you to think about your meat consumption and try to change your eating habits a bit towards a more sustainable diet.

Daniel Birkhofer
Why Should I Eat Less Meat? #3 Meat Drains Our Drinking Water

In our second edition we looked at the land as resource which is required for meat production and how much meat is consumed in different countries and how much it increased over the past 50 years. If you look at the land needed for meat production, you also need to look to how the animals are fed since this is part of the process of meat production. This also leads directly to look at another resource which is considered to become scarce in the coming decades - drinking water.

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