Mongoosen42

I've hear a lot of people recently talking about almonds and the amount of water that they use, but I feel like not a lot of coverage about the high demand that animal agriculture puts on the water supply. I've been told that it takes something like 400 gallons of water to produce a pound of almonds (which certainly sounds ridiculous) but 2000 gallons to produce a pound of beef. Yet the New York Times the other day did a piece and didn't even mention beef.

Am I missing something? Is everyone else missing something? What are your thoughts on this?

Can you help sort out some of the confusion? I've heard a lot of people talking about animal agriculture. And I've heard a lot of people talking about almonds. And then I've heard a lot of people pushing back against the people talking about almonds. And then the NYT did a piece about almonds and didn't even mention animals, and some people got upset about that.

Can you help us understand what all that is about?