Now hold on there one mo ment.
Even at city rates, 2,000 gallons of water costs what, a couple of bucks? If that figure was accurate, beef would have to cost several times that, ... OK, maybe it does. So, when we buy beef, yes, if it's worth 2,000 gallons of water, then we have to pay for it, and the answer would be yes, it's worth that to whoever buys it.
Let's look further at the math.
But say a steer yields, what, 500 pounds of beef? Am I supposed to believe it takes 1,000,000 gallons of water to grow and process one cow? Is somebody bathing it daily for three years? Or does that also include the water it took to grow the grass, and build the slaughterhouse (prorated), yada yada? Still seems an unreasonably high number, given a couple of million (???) cattle per year, are we really spending trillions of gallons per year, on beef?
And if so, is that a big number, when it comes to gallons of water?
It's all a bit vague, and I think I am not shocked or offended (or credulous) until a lot of this is clarified.
J.