If 10,000 people prepare a vegetarian meal for their family once a week, in a year we’ll save enough water to fill 2,423 Olympic-size swimming pools.

Why?

Because one pound of grain uses less than 1% of the water needed to produce a pound of beef.

Think about cutting back just a couple times a week on the meat you eat, multiply that by the number of people at your dinner table, and think of the change you could make! Some meat free dinner ideas: spinach lasagna, Thai peanut noodles, pancake night, pasta primavera, veggie avocado wraps, burritos stuffed with cheese, beans and salsa, baked potatoes filled with veggies and sour cream, matzo ball soup…

Statistics from idealbite.com.