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

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"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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