On 5/24/2015 2:03 PM, Paul M. Cook wrote:
> > wrote in message
> ...
>> On Sunday, May 24, 2015 at 3:32:44 AM UTC-7, Ophelia wrote:
>>> I have noticed several people here mention California. We have had a lot
>>> of
>>> stuff on tv about the lack of water there. We were shown the huge
>>> reservoirs with very little water in them. They were showing how people
>>> with lush grass and full swimming pools were being demonised.
>>>
>>> Is anyone here affected? It sounds very frightening!
>>
>> While people want to demonize the almond, the water it takes to grow
>> one is the same as what's used to flush away a wee.
>
> Mosty of the nuts are sold to China.


http://www.almonds.com/sites/default...13_almanac.pdf

http://giannini.ucop.edu/ResearchRep...34-Almonds.pdf

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-f...112-story.html

About 40% of the company's almonds are sold to major food companies such
as Kellogg's for use in products including cereal.

Some of the nuts are also sold to China, where annual consumption of
California almonds has more than doubled in the last five years to 208
million pounds, making it the top foreign destination for the California
crop.

What bodes well for the industry is that almond demand is also expanding
in Europe and the U.S., shielding it from dips in consumption in any one
place, said Halliburton Barber of Rabobank.

> Most of the nut farms are owned by Wall Street investment companies.

Oh horrors!

> So Wall Street is exacerbating the
> problem by planing thousand sof new acres with nut trees to increase their
> profits.

It's all that nasty Wall Street, eh Marxist?

**** you!

Learn to buy some stock and take back dividends, you idiot.