[thayne]

World beef production is approx. 60x almond production by mass, and that doesn't include dairy. That isn't the whole story, because cattle use more water than just what is used to grow alfalfa, but you are comparing apples to oranges here.

[rcpt]

You can check the per calorie stats.

Animal agriculture is wildly inefficient and honestly it's not surprising because you have to keep living moving animals around for it.

[lukeschlather]

I was drawing a point of comparison in response to the question about almonds disproportionately using scarce water resources in arid areas, which is a different question from overall water usage. My point was that almond water usage is literally only an issue in California, and that their water usage is not that extreme given the size of the market California serves.