Almonds are a luxury crop, not a staple, so it shouldn't matter that they're profitable. Environmental concerns should take precedent over private profit. Als

Almonds are a luxury crop, not a staple, so it shouldn't matter that they're profitable. Environmental concerns should take precedent over private profit. Also, cows/alfa or almonds is a false dichotomy, so defending almonds by citing cows doesn't make sense. Almond farming in California should be banned and not replaced with more cows/alfa, since that would obviously defeat the point. The point is for Californian agriculture to use less water, not shuffle the water use around, least of all to other crops which aren't necessary to keep humans fed (e.g. staple crops, of which nether of these are.)