August 4, 2009 @ 10:58 pm
This handy beef chart is courtesy of the Cattleman’s Beef Board and the National Cattleman’s Beef Association, two groups advocating the safe care of cattle and consumption of beef in the United States. You can click on the image above to see it a bit larger, or you can download this chart as a handy PDF (to print out and hang in your kitchen).
I honestly had no idea there were so many different cuts of beef. Thanks Monster-Munch!
March 18, 2009 @ 3:40 am
GOOD delivers yet another strikingly clean infographic on how to reduce your water footprint by changing your diet and lifestyle. The chart is composed of both direct water usage (how much water you use) and virtual water usage (how much water was used to make the thing you’re using).
Apparently, it takes a whole lot of water to raise a cow big enough to provide you with at least one pound of beef. I wonder if this water usage is divided by the total amount of beef that a cow can be used for, or if this one pound of beef represents an entire cow. In any case, that burger is looking really evil next to that bowl of salad once the water usage is measured up.
