My frame pool holds about 1kg of tofu.
this post was submitted on 11 Sep 2024
12 points (100.0% liked)
Vegan Infographics
45 readers
1 users here now
Vegan infographics and information based agitprop.
- Sources to be posted with the infographics (ideally direct sources)
- No paywalled information
founded 2 months ago
MODERATORS
I live in a desert and one of the things people don't realize is that because it is so sunny here that ag companies prefer to grow grass and hay for animals here because they can harvest it multiple more times per year than in a place with winter. So people talk about nonsense with cattle that they pee the water they drink back into the earth so it is no big deal and the vegans are exaggerating. The fact is the Imperial USA is currently diverting the entire flow of the Colorado river that millions of people depend on and violating treaty obligations with Mexico to denying indigenous people water so that they can grow fields of grass in Arizona which then gets cut and shipped around the world only to feed animals. It is particularly needed for horses and much of it gets sent to the Saudi royal family's ranching business.
The amount of land and water wasted on feed crops so richer consumers can have their meat treats is astounding. Its just taking food out of poorer people's mouths.
This graphic is misleading. Weight alone isn't going to feed a population. kcal/L is more meaningful. The ranking at a glance still generally holds true, but comparing tofu to chicken we see chicken uses less water per kcal.
830kcal/1kg tofu = 83kcal/100g * 10
2390kcal/1kg whole chicken = 1429kcal/598g * 1.67
Chicken has 2390/830 = 2.88x more calories than tofu per weight.
3.03L water/1kcal tofu = 0.33kcal/1L = 830kcal/2513L
1.82L water/1kcal whole chicken = 0.55kcal/1L = 2390kcal/4325L
Tofu takes 3.03/1.82 = 1.66x more water than chicken per calorie.
https://www.nutritionix.com/food/tofu/100-g https://www.nutritionix.com/food/whole-chicken