For health or dietary reasons, more people are choosing plant-based milks and other alternatives to dairy milk. Popular almond milk.
Almond milk sales in the US surpassed $1 billion in 2018 and are anticipated to rise 14.3% by 2025.
This much almond milk demands many almonds. In the U.S., almost all almonds are grown on 500-mile-long California plantations
Almond Board of California: California produces 80% of the world's almonds and 100% of U.S. commercial supplies.
Almond plantations need a resource many don't consider: bees. Bees pollinate almonds.
According to a recent Guardian piece, California's massive almond plantations demand more bees than other crops and aren't bee-friendly.