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How America’s Diet Is Feeding the Groundwater Crisis | As dinner tables and snack menus feature far more chicken and cheese, farms are expanding where water is scarce. (www.nytimes.com)
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These transformations are tied to the changing American diet. Since the early 1980s, America’s per-person cheese consumption has doubled, largely in the form of mozzarella-covered pizza pies. And last year, for the first time, the average American ate 100 pounds of chicken, twice the amount 40 years ago.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

you aren't being honest about the fact that any policy or even propaganda campaign aimed at reducing birth rates will necessarily be eugenicist since it will disproportionately impact each demographic differently.

[–] derf82 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I am being honest, because I disagree.

I am telling everyone that they should have fewer kids. I am forcing that decision on no one. You just disagree.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I am telling everyone that they should have fewer kids.

english-speaking literate people with Internet access aren't everyone.