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Study finds meat has less impact on water scarcity than most other foods

21/10/2019

A study partly funded by promotional body Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) has found that red meat production contributes 3.7% of the country’s ‘water-scarcity footprint’. This term refers to the total volume of water required to produce Australia’s food. Fully 25% of the water-scarcity footprint is down to ‘discretionary foods’, which refers...

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