On Sunday, May 24, 2015 at 1:32:13 PM UTC-7, Michel Boucher wrote:
> wrote in
> :
>
> >> > 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.

I got my numbers from the hippie-dippie Mother Jones magazine.