Eat Less Beef                        

by  The wet Weasley Water Warrior of Wisconsin

          

Imagine you go into a restaurant and you order a steak.It tastes good, right?But thousands of gallons of water have gone into its production. I think we should eat less red meat because it is bad for the environment.

         

         Raising cows for beef uses 28 times more land and 11 times more water as other animal products. It takes about 1,300 gallons of water for one 8 ounce steak. This is important because California is in a large drought and does not have the water to use on all of the cows. This means that eating less beef would help a lot.           
                                                                                                                                 

         Cows also happen to produce a lot of methane, a greenhouse gas. They give off methane from their manure and when they pass gas. This shows that raising a lot of cows is bad for the environment. Gidon Eshel, a professor, told the Huffington Post,¨Really, there’s no question about it. Reduce beef whenever possible.¨

          Some people say that by the time you order steak, so much water has already been wasted that it doesn’t matter if you eat it. However, I would argue that if we cut back on red meat, farmers would eventually stop raising as many cows with the effect of less greenhouse gases and less water wasted.

          In conclusion, I believe that we should eat less red meat because it uses a lot more land and water than other animal products and releases a lot of greenhouse gas. Some ways to reduce red meat are Meatless Mondays, when you don’t eat meat on Mondays, and “vegan till 6”, where you don’t eat animal products till after 6:00.