Von der Kuh zum Brötchen: Wie viel Energie braucht man, um einen Burger zuzubereiten?

The entire lifecycle of raising animals for beef production — from planting & harvesting feed crops to transportation, processing, & refrigeration — consumes a substantial amount of energy.

Raising a cow from calf to hamburger really puts a strain on our planet’s resources. For starters, producing a single quarter-pound hamburger can use up to 1,600 gallons of water.

On top of that, each cow needs about 4.5 acres of land for grazing and feed production — that’s 4.5 acres for every cow in the world that is being raised to ultimately become hamburger. That’s an incredible amount of land, to say the least.

Next, beef farming is a major source of greenhouse gases, releasing roughly 44 to 55 pounds of CO₂ equivalent per hamburger. Think about how many hamburgers are eaten around the world every day, and you’ll start to get the idea.

Cows are also not very efficient at turning feed into meat, needing about 15 pounds of feed to produce just 5 pounds of beef. To make beef production more sustainable, we can adopt several strategies.

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