DAILY DIALECTIC
February 16, 2009
"The water required for a meat-eating diet is twice as much needed for a 2,000-litre-a-day vegetarian diet... Clearly, we are heading toward a tipping point that could soon bring us to a day of reckoning when we will have literally made one too many trips to the planetary well. Given the current rate of development, we will not be able to provide water for producers to grow enough food and sustain a healthy environment. The only solution is to learn how to live with less water by making much better use of what we have..."
  • CONFIRMATION: BBC calls for lighter 'water footprint'... vegetarian diets, water rationing among 'solutions' to quench planet's thirst