Originally Posted by
dodgeflyer
Wow that’s even worse than I thought. Indeed Californian almond production is what I was thinking of.
According to www it takes about 4.5 gallons of water to produce a gallon of milk. Then you can argue methane issues from dairy and that almond trees probably are net good for the world for co2; however its environmental footprint far exceeds what’s good.
From my view a Californian, all of our ag business is fundamentally exporting water in one form or another - it is simply the economic and environmental impact. Same can be said for ag business across the world at this point.
From my view as a consumer of milk and (sometimes) mylk/non-dairy milk products, I'm not a fan of the mylk/non-dairy stuff.
David