{"id":24413,"date":"2025-02-26T10:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T15:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=24413"},"modified":"2025-02-17T11:45:35","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T16:45:35","slug":"burrito-on-my-plate-shows-viewers-the-water-footprint-of-a-vegan-versus-a-meat-based-burrito-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2025\/02\/26\/burrito-on-my-plate-shows-viewers-the-water-footprint-of-a-vegan-versus-a-meat-based-burrito-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Burrito on My Plate shows viewers the water footprint of a vegan versus a meat-based burrito"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Burrito-On-My-Plate.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24414\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Burrito-On-My-Plate.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>The Vegetarian Resource Group has a graphic called Burrito on My Plate, which shows viewers the water footprint of a vegan versus a meat-based burrito. It takes 225 gallons of water to make a vegan burrito without tofu and 253 gallons of water to make a vegan burrito with tofu. In comparison, it takes 541 gallons of water to make a beef burrito.<\/p>\n<p>The Burrito on My Plate Graphic can be seen here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/environment\/BurritoOnMyPlate.pdf\">https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/environment\/BurritoOnMyPlate.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The article detailing how we came up with the numbers of gallons of water needed to produce each type of burrito can be found here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/journal\/vj2017issue2\/2017_issue2_burrito_plate.php\">https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/journal\/vj2017issue2\/2017_issue2_burrito_plate.php<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vegetarian Resource Group has a graphic called Burrito on My Plate, which shows viewers the water footprint of a vegan versus a meat-based burrito. It takes 225 gallons of water to make a vegan burrito without tofu and 253 gallons of water to make a vegan burrito with tofu. In comparison, it takes 541 [&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-24413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24413","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=24413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24415,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24413\/revisions\/24415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}