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by ncmncm 1540 days ago
People eat way more beef than almonds, in sum. So, beef production is an enormously bigger drain on water than almonds.

That said, most of the almonds are grown by a billionaire on stolen water.

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"Lynda Resnick and her husband, Stewart, also own a few other things: Teleflora, the nation’s largest flower delivery service; Fiji Water, the best-selling brand of premium bottled water; Pom Wonderful, the iconic pomegranate juice brand; Halos, the insanely popular brand of mandarin oranges formerly known as Cuties; and Wonderful Pistachios, with its “Get Crackin'” ad campaign. The Resnicks are the world’s biggest producers of pistachios and almonds, and they also hold vast groves of lemons, grapefruit, and navel oranges. All told, they claim to own America’s second-largest produce company, worth an estimated $4.2 billion." https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/08/lynda-stewar...
> That said, most of the almonds are grown by a billionaire on stolen water

Well, don't keep us in suspense. To which wealthy, wetfingered nut nut do you refer?