Tuesday TOONs - Lost His Marbles

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22. We are all being sold.

Saudi Hay Farm In Arizona Tests State's Supply Of Groundwater

Outside of Phoenix, in the scorching Arizona desert, sits a farm that Saudi Arabia's largest dairy uses to make hay for cows back home.

That dairy company, named Almarai, bought the farm last year and has planted thousands of acres of groundwater-guzzling alfalfa to make that hay. Saudi Arabia can't grow its own hay anymore because those crops drained its own ancient aquifer. (my bold)

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This is occurring in a part of Arizona that is unregulated for groundwater. So there are no limits on how much water they can pump.

...the United Arab Emirates (is) doing something similar nearby

We had gone out to the desert to look at Almarai. We had found them in this cactus-filled valley in the very remote part of Arizona, and as we're driving down the road, all of a sudden we see a sign for a company from United Arab Emirates, Al Dahra, and we realize that another company has come out here and essentially replicated the exact same thing. They are growing hay. They are using the groundwater. And they are shipping it overseas — in this case, we were told, to China.

(More at link)