Beausoleil (2,257 posts)
8. I saw it expressed as gallons (of water) per pound of almonds
1900 GALLONS!
For a single pound.
Potatoes were like 12 gal/lb.
SoonerPride (10,156 posts)
9. yes!! I heard that stat on Bill Maher last week and couldn't find a chart.
it is un-****ing believable.
I have been using almond milk in my daily cereal but will not buy it anymore.
Starting next week I will buy soy milk.
I can't condone the consumption of almond anything.
They are just too wasteful of a precious resource.
Sibelius Fan (23,813 posts)
4. It takes 1.1 gallons of water to grow a single almond.
Not exactly a drought-resilient crop.
Sibelius Fan (23,813 posts)
23. ...and a single walnut takes 4.9 gallons of water.
I love this next one. This is a true liberal. Complete fascist.
hunter (33,104 posts)
22. The dairy industry sucks up more water than almonds. And it stinks.
If all the factory farm dairies were replaced with almonds it would be a vast improvement and use less water.
NOBODY needs dairy products or the cheap meat products made from mutant cows raised in abusive conditions on great mounds of shit.
What really needs to happen is the restoration of land that is not really viable for farming to some sort of semi-natural state.
That land might support a few dairy animals, peacefully eating grass, but those meat and dairy products wouldn't be cheap.
I really don't give a damn if a gallon of milk or a pound of hamburger costs $50.
Subsidizing and protecting farmers who are not making the world a better place is a bizarre U.S.A. obsession.
As a nation we really ought to shut down the most environmentally and spiritually destructive forms of agriculture.
We could even pay farmers who are still living in the homes of their grandparents to restore their land to something sustainable.
Nobody would starve.
So a couple of things here. It always amazes me when people talk about "wasting" water. You're not really wasting it. It's not going anywhere, but it may take a bit for it to get back to where you can use it. All the water this planet had when it was created is still here! (with the noted exception of any water we've shot into space which is minimal)
The people who throw these hissy fits act like that water is gone and it's never coming back. Once we 'use' all the water on the planet that it, we're all going to die!! Someone needs to explain the water cycle to them and see what their reaction is.
Secondly, I would LOVE to see them compare this to a freaking LITHIUM MINE!! They are all agog and atwitter about their electric vehicles and how they should punish those of us who don't buy them. Give me a break! You're going to stop using almond milk because of the water that passes through the nut, but you're going to go out and buy an electric vehicle? LOL
KC