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Kirsten Engel: “We have Saudi Arabia renting land from our state land…”

Featuring: Kirsten Engel, Democratic | Former Candidate, U.S. House Arizona, District 6

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Kirsten Engel 9/12/2022

Published | Video Starts at 13:15

… compete with some of the corporate farming and ranching interests that have come in and are really pumping out a lot of that water. Foreign interests. Kind of incredible that We have Saudi Arabia renting land from our state land department, pumping out our water to grow alfalfa. and then shipping that back to feed cattle in Saudi Arabia. These are the types of things that are wasteful and bad policy and need to be worked on on the state level. (13:15–13:26)

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Asserts that Saudi Arabia is renting land in Arizona to pump water for alfalfa.

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