Irate Uruguayans have demonstrated in the streets throughout the crisis. They are angry at the country’s huge beef sector, because a typical cow drinks 40 liters of water a day.
People will run out of water before cows, thanks to animal agriculture
this post was submitted on 16 Aug 2023
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Intensive agriculture and our economic system at large is going to screw us all everywhere: it causes climate change, and it also prevents (not rich) people to adapt to it. So fucked up.
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I have access, weird 🤔
NYTimes gives you X free articles until they put up a paywall. I have a pay wall too.
Just doing strange stuff for me right now, telling me I reached my number of free articles and loading entirely again 5 seconds later 😅 anyway someone shared the article in another comment if needed :-)
I think I've just hit that website too many times this week/month or whatever.