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70% of the Water Used in the 11 Western States Goes to Raising Animals for Food

"Yet ranchers have not stopped at merely diverting the flow of rivers and tapping our priceless aquifers; they have also drained marshes, swamps, and ponds, destroying ecologically valuable wetlands for the short term benefit of their cattle." – Howard F. Lyman (Mad Cowboy The Movie 2015) And this is going on right now, even in drought-stricken California, while we are told simply to take shorter showers. How does this make you feel?

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