These transformations are tied to the changing American diet. Since the early 1980s, America’s per-person cheese consumption has doubled, largely in the form of mozzarella-covered pizza pies. And last year, for the first time, the average American ate 100 pounds of chicken, twice the amount 40 years ago.
Ideally we should take back the water rights sold to bit corporations for pennies on the dollar that let them extract and ship our water elsewhere.
That should be done as well of course.