You sure you didn't mean to post at the Daily Kos??
news flash...we utilize livestock. and California and the US Govt. stopped water to the central valley farms....because people in that central valley are mostly republicans. it didn't matter that it used to feed much of America.
the problem is cramming millions into a friggin desert and then preventing the building of a watershed and dams.
He is another ignorant urbanite living on impermeable concrete to cover the topsoil.
Well the country was an exaggeration but in California alfalfa and hay and pasturage account for approximately half of all water used in the state.