US agriculture contributes to about 3/4 of all water quality problems in US rivers and streams
“Agriculture in the United States - much of which now serves the demand for meat - contributes to nearly three-quarters of all water-quality problems in the nation's rivers and streams.”
Brian Moench, “Apocalypse of the ‘Happy Meal’: Worshipping the Golden Calf,” Truthout, August 20, 2014, accessed August 21, 2014, http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/25562-apocalypse-of-the-happy-meal-wo....