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None so blind as those that can not see.Steady on. The Nfu doing something useful ? That will upset a few on here.
Was released in Feb 2020.
None so blind as those that can not see.Steady on. The Nfu doing something useful ? That will upset a few on here.
Eh!!!!
Even a Jersey will drink 50l a day
50 x 365 = 18,250
So there's approx 3l per litre
Californias problem is that it eventually returns nowhere near their water catchment. Lakes Mead and Powell are nearly dry.Even evaporated water eventually returns to the earth’s surface - it’s only borrowed.
Ok guys, I want to make sure my figures are generally right before I do the NFUs job and write to the economist and grocer magazines and the BBC about all this obvious bollox that is being spouted!
Having done my carbon footprint and realising that mine and the UK average were quite low. I looked for plant milk averages and found them to be similar to UK milk! I then found this gem that was in the grocer and based on supposed world average figures compiled by 2 VEGAN scientists at Oxford. The water Use one especially Is horrendously wrong. It’s no wonder the bbc et al are so full of bullsh*t if these are the figures they are using. Can anyone point to any holes in my research, to stop me making a fool of myself?!
Cows themselves are zero net carbon emissions anyway and don't you let anyone tell you different.Another thing I’ve thought of, when our cows are culled and go into burgers etc, surely that should be zero carbon, as all the carbon that cow has produced in her lifetime has been accounted for in her milk???
Surely 9 tonnes of water per pound.Errr this just shows how social media can influence the truth;
2000 gallons per pound of almonds;
= 2000 x 4.546kg = 9092 litres per pound
= 1 pound x 2.2 = 1 kg
Therefore 9092 x 2.2 = 20,000 kg
Therefore 20 tonnes of water to produce 1 pond almonds.
Sill a huge number but different to the 79 tonnes we could easily be quoting if not careful. .
Like @jerseycowsman says , Lets at least check what we put out there and maintain our credibility.
Oh yes, I know, every barsteward seems to have forgotten the carbon cycle, unless your are talking about RHI and wood pellets bloody burners!Cows themselves are zero net carbon emissions anyway and don't you let anyone tell you different.
If cows were going to fry the fecking planet they would have done so hundreds/thousands of years ago.
Why folk, even some farmers can't bloody well see this I don't know.
Are these U.S.A. gallons i.e. six U.K. pints or U.K. gallons, eight U.K. pints?Californian almonds use the most water to grow
Nuts are the most notorious culprit. California produces 80% of the world's almonds — 2 billion pounds a year — at a staggering cost of 2,000 gallons of water per pound of almonds.
Maybe the government hate us a tiny bit less today
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1. All the water my cows consume is mains water, and that does for all the farm's water requirement. So you are correct. Their figure on water consumption per litre is just more absolute drivel. Complete twaddle.Two things.
1. Re original post
If it needs 628 litres of tap water to produce 1 litre of milk here in the UK everyone in the industry would be bankrupt. 628 litres is 0.628 cubic meters of water. WaterPlus charge (and I am sure all the other robbing water companies are similar) £1.67 per cubic meter so that would be a water cost of £1.05 per litre of milk! I don't think so.
2. Vegans
When told by my trendy vegan niece that dairy farmers were ruining the environment my response was to take a look at the packet of the "healthy and environmentally friendly" vegan concoction she was consuming. It contained large quantities of palm fat and soya. When I asked her why do they need to chop down Indonesian rain forests to grow her palm and South American rain forest to grow her soya her answer was "it is vegan so it must be good for the planet".