France going veggie would save 1m litres of water per person each year

By Andy Coghlan

Here’s another good reason for everyone to become a vegetarian. If this happened in the UK, Germany or France, it would slash the amount of water required to make food in each of these countries by between 33 and 55 per cent, a new analysis has concluded.

The reason for the projected reductions is the colossal amount of water for producing meat – typically 15,000 litres per kilogram of beef, for example, versus 1000 litres for a kilogram of grain.

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