Facts contained in the liner notes to Moby's "Everything is Wrong"

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

>>--it takes 23 gallons of water to produce a pound of tomatoes, it takes
>>5,214 gallons of water to produce a pound of beef.
>
>true, but the water given to the cattle isn't totally wasted or destroyed.
>Eventually it evaporates and comes down as rain to feed the tomatoes.
>
>BTW, what are Moby's sources? Even the HARPERS' INDEX has footnotes.
>
>Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx & http://liberalarts.lmu.edu/~JDevine/JDevine.html

He invites people to write him to get the sources.

The water question is not so simple, especially in states like California
that are naturally dry. When I was there a couple of months ago driving up
the main interstate that runs through the agribusiness Central Valley, I
saw signs every few miles urging opposition to proposed legislation that
would interfere with access to water. Although water takes the form of
rain, it does not manifest itself uniformly like lawn sprinklers. It is a
scarce resource nowadays and becoming scarcer. Just ask Patrick Bond who
has been deeply involved in water utilization struggles in South Africa.

Louis Proyect

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