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So... you're agreeing with me that California does not produce anything vaguely like 80% of all the cattle in the world?

• curun1r 12y ago
  It's fairly obvious that more beef is consumed in the world than almonds. Thus, 80% of the world's almonds doesn't necessarily consume more water than the much smaller percent of the world's beef produced in California. If anything, it argues that beef shouldn't be produced in California since there are other producers of beef that can pick up the slack whereas there isn't likely to be (an)other producer(s) of almonds that can handle the world's demand if California were to cease production of almonds.
• joshu 12y ago
  You said it doesn't produce that much. That is untrue.
  • Dylan16807 12y ago
    5.7% of the US supply vs. 80% of the world supply... What exactly are you calling untrue? (Note that California cattle are not anywhere close in absolute water use either.)
    • joshu 12y ago
      Percentages are not amounts. He said it does not have that much cattle.