{"id":10979,"date":"2017-06-02T08:00:27","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T12:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=10979"},"modified":"2017-05-25T11:49:47","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T15:49:47","slug":"the-water-footprint-of-a-vegan-burrito-versus-a-meat-burrito","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/02\/the-water-footprint-of-a-vegan-burrito-versus-a-meat-burrito\/","title":{"rendered":"The Water Footprint of a Vegan Burrito versus a Meat Burrito"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/burrito-clipart-burrito-emojiprints-com-free-emoji-shirt-amazing-new-emoji-you-clipart.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/burrito-clipart-burrito-emojiprints-com-free-emoji-shirt-amazing-new-emoji-you-clipart-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"burrito-clipart-burrito-emojiprints-com-free-emoji-shirt-amazing-new-emoji-you-clipart\" width=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-10980\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/burrito-clipart-burrito-emojiprints-com-free-emoji-shirt-amazing-new-emoji-you-clipart-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/burrito-clipart-burrito-emojiprints-com-free-emoji-shirt-amazing-new-emoji-you-clipart-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/burrito-clipart-burrito-emojiprints-com-free-emoji-shirt-amazing-new-emoji-you-clipart-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/burrito-clipart-burrito-emojiprints-com-free-emoji-shirt-amazing-new-emoji-you-clipart.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Have you ever wondered how much water is used to make a vegan burrito versus a meat-based burrito? Figuring out the answer to this question is not as easy as you might think. VRG Research Director Jeanne Yacoubou, MS, spent a lot of time investigating this topic and shares her findings in the recent issue of <em>Vegetarian Journal<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The article can be read here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/journal\/vj2017issue2\/2017_issue2_burrito_plate.php\">Burrito on My Plate: The Water Footprint of a Vegan Versus a Meat Burrito<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here is a one page infographic comparing how much water is needed to produce a Vegan Burrito without Tofu, a Vegan Burrito with Tofu, and a Beef Burrito:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/environment\/BurritoOnMyPlate.pdf\">http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/environment\/BurritoOnMyPlate.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To support research such as this, consider donating to The Vegetarian Resource Group at:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.givedirect.org\/donate\/?cid=1565\">Donate to VRG<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever wondered how much water is used to make a vegan burrito versus a meat-based burrito? Figuring out the answer to this question is not as easy as you might think. VRG Research Director Jeanne Yacoubou, MS, spent a lot of time investigating this topic and shares her findings in the recent issue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10979"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10982,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10979\/revisions\/10982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}