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Beef Consumption Hurting Rivers

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A team of researchers have published a paper in Nature Sustainability that shows irrigation of cattle feed crops is the greatest consumer of river water in the Western United States, implicating beef and dairy consumption as the leading driver of water shortages and fish imperilment in the region.

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