[voakbasda]

Even worse, my understanding is that much of that alfalfa gets put into shipping containers and sold overseas. The agricultural drain on the aquifers does not even benefit US ranchers.

[hnav]

It benefits whoever has the water rights since they're effectively able to export something that they're not paying the externalities on.

[voakbasda]

That’s the joke. We are literally letting those growers export our water and put the profit in their own pockets and at the public’s expense.

[xahrepap]

Shipped to countries that have banned the growing of the crop because of water concerns

[riedel]

Even worse: this is going to cattle farms that are responsible for considerable amount of methane emissions contributing to global warming.