My electric bill just came today, and I believe I got charged for the sunlight, moonlight, streetlight, the light of the Holy Spirit, and the light at the end of the tunnel!
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.
Sir Gino is reported to be comfortable and stable ❤️
It has been confirmed that he suffered a fractured pelvis and examinations over the next few days will determine any prognosis.
Thinking of Sir Gino and the team at @sevenbarrows.
Filmed this afternoon less than half a mile from Birmingham city centre. A typical sight in the alleged ‘second city’ of Britain. We should all be ashamed, embarrassed and angry about this rancid and squalid city.
I am tired of having to download an app, create an account, confirm my email, set up a password that has at least 1 letter and 1 special character, enter the code sent to my email, for every single thing on God’s green earth, FUCK EVERY SINGLE COMPANY, AND YOUR STUPID CRAP!!!!!!!
A husband and wife are having breakfast...
The wife asks him, ‘Honey, could you take a look at the bathroom door? It seems a little stuck’
‘Do I look like a carpenter?’
‘And the toilet is also clogged.. I’d take a look at that as well’
‘Do I look like a plumber?’
‘Oh, and there's a tile loose on our kitchen floor’
‘Do I look like a tiler?’
The next evening, the husband comes home from work.
The wife tells him, ‘Honey, everything’s been fixed! Mr Adams from across the street offered to help.’
‘Oh, that’s nice. Did he ask anything in return?’
‘Well, I could choose. Bake him a pie or sleep with him’
The husband laughs and responds: ‘I hope you baked him a nice pie’
‘Do I look like a baker?’
My Husband died...
After he died, I couldn't even look at another Man for almost 20 years.
But now that I'm out of Prison
I can honestly say it was worth it.