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Invasion of the hedge fund almonds

By Tom Philpott · Mother Jones · January 2015
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Invasion of the hedge fund almonds
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"It takes a gallon of water to produce one almond. And that's not the most insane fact about the mad dash to plant the thirsty trees in the middle of a catastrophic drought."

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