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Michel Boucher[_3_]

wrote in
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>> > I love almonds. I am not sure why anyone would demonise
>> > them?
>>
>> When it takes 20 gallons of water to grow one and you are in
>> the middle (or beginning) of an epic droiught it makes for an
>> easy target.
>
> It takes one gallon of water to grow an almond, but 3.3
> gallons of water to grow a tomato. Almonds sell at a premium
> compared to tomatoes.

That is cracker economics at its most risible. You cannot grow a
single almond, you have to grow a tree which will produce many
almonds (I would imagine close to 100 almonds per tree if my
experience in Andalucia is similar), each if them requiring a
"gallon" (or more accurately 4 litres) of water. You can however
grow a few tomatoes instead of a hundred.

Cracker economics.

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