David Cogan
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California's Central Valley produces 80% of the world's almonds. Each almond requires 3.2 gallons of actual irrigation water to grow. Not rainfall. Actual tap water pumped from aquifers.
One gallon of almond milk requires 162 gallons of irrigation water. Compare that to dairy milk at 8 gallons of tap water per gallon, with the rest being rainfall that falls on pasture anyway.
But here's where it gets properly grim. Almonds bloom for exactly three weeks in February. During those three weeks, California needs every pollinating bee in North America transported to the Central Valley or the crop fails entirely.
Commercial beekeepers truck in 31 billion honeybees. That's two-thirds of America's entire managed bee population, all concentrated in one valley for three weeks. The bees are packed into trucks, driven across the country, dumped into almond groves drenched in pesticides, worked to exhaustion, then packed up and shipped to the next crop.
The mortality rate is catastrophic. Beekeepers report losing 30 to 50% of their hives annually. That's billions of bees dead. Not from natural causes. From being used as disposable pollination machines for your almond milk.
The pesticides don't help. Almond groves are sprayed with neonicotinoids which scramble bee navigation systems, fungicides which weaken their immune systems, and herbicides which eliminate the wildflowers they'd normally forage on between almond blooms.
Meanwhile the aquifer depletion is permanent. The Central Valley has sunk 28 feet in some areas from groundwater extraction. That water took 10,000 years to accumulate. It's being drained in decades for almond milk.
Your vegan latte killed more bees and used more water than a year's worth of dairy milk. But it's got "plant-based" on the label so you're definitely saving the planet.

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@TUFC1899 I know its early but maybe a case of live by the sword, d*e by the sword?
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@Dunibear Shameful AI nonsense. This isnt Ozzy....its computer generated.
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@exclusivideo Of course the four lads are just gonna stand in the same place after it happened the first time.....oh and the second time....
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@TORQUAYTALK I'll never forget the late match winner against Barnet.
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ON THIS DAY - 21ST JUNE #tufc
2007 - Kevin Nicholson signs for the club from Forest Green. Nico spends the next 7 years at Plainmoor, and including a spell as Player Manager, ends up making 350 appearances for United, scoring 13 goals.

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@goddywestie @TUFC1899 Win or lose, its been a fantastic season. We have our club back thanks to you, Mark and the rest of the Bryn boys so thank you. COYY!!!!
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@Dunibear Ive just been deafened by the sound of approx 60k hearts breaking.
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Stop the Destruction of the World-Renowned Dartington Forest Garden - Sign the Petition! chng.it/MGcxsZLLgF via @UKChange
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