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What's the best kind of milk to drink? Whole milk or skim? Should it pasteurized or raw? (lemmygrad.ml)

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Are you saying it takes 628 liters of water to produce 1 liter of cows milk? That seems excessive for a cow that can produce about 22 liters of milk a day.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yes easily, you can look into the papers explaining that data, but it's factoring in all the water necessary, including the amoun, required for all the intermediary inputs, water needed for feed crops, etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

So 628 liters of water for the first liter of milk then another 628 liters for the second liter? Seems like your math is a little wrong.

Just googling around, growing one pound of oats takes about 290 gallons. It takes about 1.25 cups of oats to make a liter of homemade oatmilk. 1.25 cups of oats is about .25 pounds. That's 72.5 gallons to get your one liter of oatmilk. Or about 274 liters of water.

I have no problem with people going to better alternatives for health and environmentalism and more - even tastiness, but that chart seems a little wrong.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/food-water-footprint_n_5952862 https://minimalistbaker.com/make-oat-milk/ https://www.traditionaloven.com/conversions_of_measures/rolled_oats_measures_converter.html