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In reply to the discussion: all water, low nutrition salad foods: cucumbers, radishes, lettuce, celery. waste of resources? [View all]RufusTFirefly
(8,812 posts)52. I'll considering skipping salad when Nestle stops buying our water at 2 cents/gallon
For roughly what that one family pays to cook, drink, and bathe for less than six months, Nestle extracts 27 million gallons of crystal clear water from the Arrowhead Spring, denying precious ground water replenishment and natural irrigation to the forest around it and the valley below.
At that rate, Nestle is paying roughly two cents per gallon for water they routinely sell for as much as $2 per bottle. The profits from the spring, which is on public land in a national forest, goes directly to Nestle, with not a dime going to investigate the risks to that fragile ecosystem or any kind of public reimbursement for the theft of our natural resource.
At that rate, Nestle is paying roughly two cents per gallon for water they routinely sell for as much as $2 per bottle. The profits from the spring, which is on public land in a national forest, goes directly to Nestle, with not a dime going to investigate the risks to that fragile ecosystem or any kind of public reimbursement for the theft of our natural resource.
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/08/21/nestle-pays-a-whopping-524-for-27-million-gallons-of-californias-most-precious-resource/
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all water, low nutrition salad foods: cucumbers, radishes, lettuce, celery. waste of resources? [View all]
Liberal_in_LA
Aug 2015
OP
I don't use it for salads, but it's still good for shredding for tacos, for sandwiches, etc.
TwilightGardener
Aug 2015
#33
There are not just 27 nutrients. There are phytonutrients. So Charles Benbrook
KittyWampus
Aug 2015
#39
I'll give you my greens and salad veggies when you pry them from my cold, dead hands.
Arugula Latte
Aug 2015
#51
I'll considering skipping salad when Nestle stops buying our water at 2 cents/gallon
RufusTFirefly
Aug 2015
#52
It seems to me then that these crops are crops that could benefit from some major GMO
cstanleytech
Aug 2015
#56
Perhaps if we want to save water we should stop cutting down trees to print the washington post.
Travis_0004
Aug 2015
#78