|08-30-2012, 11:02 AM||#1| Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 26,308Rep
Power: 110 The world may be required to go vegetarian by 2050
-World may be forced to go vegetarian by 2050, scientists say It
simply takes too much water to grow a steak. In a new report,
leading water scientists say the human population would have to
switch to an almost entirely vegetarian diet by 2050 to avoid
catastrophic global food and water shortages. "There will not be
enough water available … to produce food for the expected 9
billion population in 2050 if we follow current trends," Malin
Falkenmark and colleagues at the Stockholm International Water
Institute stated in the report. By their estimation, there
should be just enough water to go around if humans derive just 5
percent of their calories from animal-based foods by midcentury,
instead of the 20 percent of calories that they currently get
from meat, eggs and dairy. It's a simple numbers game: Cattle,
for example, consume a shocking 17 times more grain calories
than they produce a