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How America’s Diet Is Feeding the Groundwater Crisis | As dinner tables and snack menus feature far more chicken and cheese, farms are expanding where water is scarce. (www.nytimes.com)
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These transformations are tied to the changing American diet. Since the early 1980s, America’s per-person cheese consumption has doubled, largely in the form of mozzarella-covered pizza pies. And last year, for the first time, the average American ate 100 pounds of chicken, twice the amount 40 years ago.

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[–] TurboDiesel@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We need to take a whole-cloth look at how agribusiness operates. Why is there so much outrage over resources we're using to farm chicken, which as you pointed out are lower calorie-for-calorie than beef, but crickets for the resources we're wasting on growing alfalfa in Arizona.

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Also, start eating crickets! They're a great source of protein!

[–] Reddit_Is_Trash@reddthat.com -3 points 2 years ago

No, that sounds disgusting!

I don't know where this push for eating bugs came from, it's not a valid solution