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Leading Water Scientists Say Vegetarian Diet Could Be Best Solution to Increasing Water Scarcity

Australia's Science Weekly magazine summarized the 2012 report Feeding a Thirsty World produced by scientists at Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), noting that the SIWI scientists "predict that by mid-century there won’t be enough water to accommodate the water-intensive practices used in meat production."

The Science Weekly article came to a refreshingly obvious, clear conclusion that is so often overlooked in favor of expensive, convoluted, and further damaging solutions attempting to allow us to illogically continue breeding and accommodating tens of billions of livestock animals each year on a resource-strapped planet, saying: "A vegetarian diet could be the best solution to the increasing water scarcity problem the world is facing. It would mean that the crops grown would be used to feed people instead of feeding livestock."

There you have it. There is truly no arguing that we can be uses our precious resources, including water, to accomodate the 7 billion fellow members of our own species instead of intentionally breeding animals by the billions year after year, many of whom each require astronomically more water and food than people.

Rearing livestock animals is a staggering waste of natural resources compared to cultivating plant foods for direct human consumption. Yet sometimes, the most obvious solution is the hardest to see.

Have you made the connection and shifted to a plant-based diet yet?

Other articles summarizing the SIWI report include the following:

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