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Do we now have to blame almonds? Are they racist almonds? Do they deny opportunities to people of color? Do those almonds wish they were on a white man’s plantation or the poor hardscrabble 40 acres of a freed slave being harvested by a mule the slave got as reparations?
I really can’t get any sicker of this crap. Why don’t we instead act like adults and plan for a state that (gasp!) uses water and waters lawns with it and grows foods with it? Or are we better off blaming something we don’t like?
California’s suffering a self-inflicted drought. It’s no coincidence that once their stupid green laws got enacted they started suffering droughts.
Allow the infrastructure to be expanded and stop using water for stupid environmental projects.
isn’t it almendra in the central valley?
Where do grapes fit in the water usage? They are everywhere in Northern and central California to the Livermore Valley and beyond, Everyday see new Vineyards of them.
‘Almonds, pistachios’
Well, that’s just nuts.
It’s Cher and Streisand.
As long as we have grocery stores, we don’t need farmers.
‘Cause they shake the “l” out of them to get them out of the tree?
Hey, we need to keep selling our alfalfa and rice.Those two crops help pay the bills and keep thousands of Californians (both legal and illegal) employed.
Now I’m wanting an Almond Joy candy bar. Two mounds of milk chocolate with shredded coconut inside.
You got that right!
I would think California politicians and celebutards are the worst water offenders.
kill the almond!!!!
Geez - why doesn’t the state of California and those Sanctuary cities just invite more illegals to move there. Uncontrolled immigration has its consequences. You asked for it and now you got it. Difficult to have sympathy for California.
Acre-feet per acre might not be the most appropriate metric.
How about dollars per acre-foot or calories for human consumption per acre-foot.
If we use the last one alfalfa is going to come off poorly, because producing meat or milk is very inefficient per acre.
IOW, six acre-feet per acre might be quite efficient if each acre-foot produces 10M calories. Not so much if it only results in 1M calories.
Note: I have zero idea whether these numbers are even orders of magnitude within range of actual calories per acre-foot.
You’ll often hear the CA almond industry blamed for the loss of honey bees lately — Colony Collapse Disorder etc.
Bees getting trucked out there by the billions...(long story, do a search for “bees, almonds, monoculture.”)
How did the almond get so big? Who’s eating them all? I’ve gone years without eating one. In fact, put me in the candy aisle and I’ll de-select Almond Joy every time.
Seriously. What are they doing with all these nuts?