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I don't think reducing human culinary culture down to only what is the most efficient per calorie per acre food is a laudable goal. If there is a ground water crisis, maybe the solution is to produce food in sustainable locations, ban food exports, and profit from food.
Some foods like cheese can also be made much more efficiently than with cows milk with new biotechnologies. There are a handful of companies that turn sugar water into cows milk using specially engineered yeast. https://perfectday.com/process/
This is a farming/regulation problem. Not a consumption problem. Almonds are a similar food grown where they shouldn’t be.
Yeah chicken consumption is going up because it's almost always the cheapest option in the shelves (here anyway). People aren't magically all deciding to eat it. It's what they can afford.
I think the problem with almonds in california is more of a problem of water rights which were granted generations ago. They have to use the water so they literally just flood fields. Almonds can and are grown with much less wasteful techniques all over the world.