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benrutter • today at 9:39 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

Not OP, but coffee is really high on water use, and can be a big cause of deforestation in some cases. So they're probably getting at this.


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my-huge-pony • today at 10:14 AM

Apparently producing coffee beans for one large coffee uses 140kg of water. Ok, that sounds like a lot.

But also apparently producing one meal worth of chicken takes 700kg of water. Over 3000kg of water for beef. So I think, in comparison, coffee water use if negligible.