Consider Some
Posted by torbjornrive on February 29, 2008
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization says world food production must increase by 60% to meet growing demand over the next 20 years. Does the world have enough arable land to do so? Have we enough water? (From New Scientist):
- Every teaspoon of sugar in your coffee requires 50 cups of water to grow it. Growing the coffee itself25 bathtubs of water. requires 140 liters of water, or 1,120 cups. The 250 grams of cotton needed to make a single T-shirt uses
- To produce a kilo of meat, you need eight kilos of grain. To produce eight kilos of grain, you need 12 meters cubed of water. That’s 3,166 gallons of water… to complete that chain to produce meat.
Don’t be scared. Just food for thought. Or water for thought.
