Yuma County grows 90% of the leafy greens the U.S. consumes in the winter. But Arizona relies on water from the Colorado River, which is at record lows.
I don’t know exactly how much alfafa uses as a percentage. Agriculture is listed at about 72-75% from what I can find, golf is 2%. Not sure about the stadium or pipe leaks…
I realize golf is not necessary for life, but some of the choices we make about crops grown in the desert are not necessarily about food either, at least for humans: alfafa is for livestock feed, and cotton is not edible either.
People don’t like to bring it up, but questioning what is on your plate is going to be part of a lot of this, I think.
I’m vegetarian, and though I don’t really discuss it IRL unless the conversation is foisted on me, I have seen my share of emotional reactions from people when it comes to their food choices…there is a certain kind of omnivores that get overly emotional by just being in the presence of a vegetarian or vegan.
I think I read that there was something underway to remove the Saudis, but maybe it already happened. In any case, I read that alfafa isn’t going away after that.
Wonder if they’ll have to cut back on that alfafa.
No cuts to alfalfa.
No regulation of golf course water use.
No limit to how much State Farm Stadium can use on it’s chronically over watered turf.
No effort to fix municipal pipe leaks.
No conservation requirements for high rises or new builds
But you can guarantee the cost of a toilet’s worth of pee will be 3x by the end of next year.
No funding. Raising property taxes is good, but suicidal politically.
At least the Musical Theater nerds saw this coming
I don’t know exactly how much alfafa uses as a percentage. Agriculture is listed at about 72-75% from what I can find, golf is 2%. Not sure about the stadium or pipe leaks…
I realize golf is not necessary for life, but some of the choices we make about crops grown in the desert are not necessarily about food either, at least for humans: alfafa is for livestock feed, and cotton is not edible either.
People don’t like to bring it up, but questioning what is on your plate is going to be part of a lot of this, I think.
I’m vegetarian, and though I don’t really discuss it IRL unless the conversation is foisted on me, I have seen my share of emotional reactions from people when it comes to their food choices…there is a certain kind of omnivores that get overly emotional by just being in the presence of a vegetarian or vegan.
Oh, no! What will the Saudi racehorses eat!
I think I read that there was something underway to remove the Saudis, but maybe it already happened. In any case, I read that alfafa isn’t going away after that.