"Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in message
...
> On 5/24/2015 4:03 PM, Paul M. Cook wrote:
>
>>
>> Mosty of the nuts are sold to China. Most of the nut farms are owned by
>> Wall Street investment companies. So Wall Street is exacerbating the
>> problem by planing thousand sof new acres with nut trees to increase
>> their
>> profits.
>>
>
> That is true, but the almond growers also employ people, the employees buy
> groceries and pay taxes. Others maintain equipment.

Almond growing is a very low labor business. It is mostly mechanized. One
does not pick almonds, they are shaken from the tree using a special
machine.

> Sounds like you need balance.

Sounds like we need to stop selling ourselves down the river for short term
profits.



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