How America’s Diet Is Feeding the Groundwater Crisis
www.nytimes.com
As dinner tables and snack menus feature far more chicken and cheese, farms are expanding where water is scarce.

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These transformations are tied to the changing American diet. Since the early 1980s, America’s per-person cheese consumption has doubled, largely in the form of mozzarella-covered pizza pies. And last year, for the first time, the average American ate 100 pounds of chicken, twice the amount 40 years ago.