{"id":13708,"date":"2019-06-14T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T13:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=13708"},"modified":"2019-06-11T12:31:48","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T16:31:48","slug":"how-much-water-is-used-to-produce-a-bag-of-potato-chips-the-answer-is-not-so-simple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2019\/06\/14\/how-much-water-is-used-to-produce-a-bag-of-potato-chips-the-answer-is-not-so-simple\/","title":{"rendered":"How much water is used to produce a bag of potato chips? The answer is not so simple!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/potatochips_rgb_p.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13709\" width=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/potatochips_rgb_p.png 304w, https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/potatochips_rgb_p-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/potatochips_rgb_p-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 304px) 100vw, 304px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The VRG received an email inquiry from a European reader\nabout the amount of water needed to produce one bag of potato chips listed in\nour <em>Save Our Water the Vegetarian Way<\/em>\nbrochure: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/environment\/water_brochure.php\">http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/environment\/water_brochure.php<\/a>.\nThe Vegetarian Resource Group\u2019s Research Manager, Jeanne Yacoubou, MS, answers\nthis question in detail here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/environment\/potato_chips_water_footprint.htm\">https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/environment\/potato_chips_water_footprint.htm<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To support this type of research, please consider donating\nto The Vegetarian Resource Group: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/donate\">www.vrg.org\/donate<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The VRG received an email inquiry from a European reader about the amount of water needed to produce one bag of potato chips listed in our Save Our Water the Vegetarian Way brochure: http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/environment\/water_brochure.php. The Vegetarian Resource Group\u2019s Research Manager, Jeanne Yacoubou, MS, answers this question in detail here: https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/environment\/potato_chips_water_footprint.htm To support this type of [&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-13708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13708","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=13708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13710,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13708\/revisions\/13710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}