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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.

Nine years ago tonight, on October 13, 2013, David Ortiz threw the whole goddam city on his back with one swing of the bat.

Celtics in 4

Vincent Ciattei is your men's 2022 @usatf 1 Mile Road Champion! #USARC

@ATVIAssist call of duty is so beyond bugged, I can’t join my friends or even join a lobby please figure this out

Does anyone else remember flirting with their crush by poking them on Facebook?

@owenbuck8 Happy 5th Friendversary to us & hopefully many more

𝟖:𝟑𝟏.𝟐𝟑 🤯 Fits just went superhuman in the steeplechase! 💨 #StrongerTogether | #Hokies 🦃

Fitsum. Seyoum. ✅ School record ✅ ACC Championships record ✅ Paul Derr Track record ✅ fastest steeplechase in the COUNTRY #StrongerTogether | #Hokies 🦃

𝙁𝙄𝙏𝙎𝙐𝙈 𝙎𝙀𝙔𝙊𝙐𝙈 𝘽𝙔 𝘼 𝙈𝙄𝙇𝙀 😳 In the nightcap, Fits repeats as 3000m steeplechase champ, going 8:41.23! 🥇 That’s a... School record Meet record Facility record And the FASTEST TIME IN THE NATION. #StrongerTogether | #Hokies 🦃

MY 4TH ALBUM “FALLEN EMBERS” SUMMER 2021

JALEN SUGGS SENDS GONZAGA TO THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP 😱 @ZagMBB #FinalFour

Bashir. Mosavel-Lo. 🏆 With his 3:59.00 flat, he has the number 1⃣ time in the ACC, the number 3⃣ time in VT history, and the number 5⃣ time in the nation. #StrongerTogether | #Hokies 🦃

@FloTrack you might want to have a look at the Men’s Mile at Virginia Tech today 😱😱😱😱

Does anyone else hurt their own feelings for no reason or are you normal

HALLOWEEN IX INTRO 🔥 (via @Festseason, @RLGRIME)

HALLOWEEN IX WORLD PREMIERE ANY MINUTE NOW AHHHHHHHH twitch.tv/sablevalley

@evanmafilas1 I see me back there getting BODIED, hope all is well my guy

i never forget this race...had a lot to prove and STILL DO ‼️‼️‼️

Meet the Cal cross-country runner who wants to dismantle the NCAA wapo.st/33Q6iJn

@owenbuck8 Happy 4th Friendversary to us & hopefully many more