Comment by jimnotgym

Serious question

Were these trees ever profitable? If the true cost of water resources were added?

If the true cost of picking them with US workers were paid?

Any other subsidy?

In my country there is a farm lobby too, but they rather look after the massive agribusiness at the expense of small farms. Is that the case in the US?

I have never seen a californian peach orchard (I have read Grapes of Wrath, if that counts!), are they a similar environmental disaster to the almond monoculture?