Meat industry blamed for largest-ever 'dead zone' in Gulf of Mexico

[TomSea]

Meat industry blamed for largest-ever 'dead zone' in Gulf of Mexico

A new report shows toxins from suppliers to companies like Tyson Foods are pouring into waterways, causing marine life to leave or die
Toxins from manure and fertiliser pouring into waterways in and around the Gulf of Mexico are causing harmful algal blooms, leading to widespread ‘dead zones’.
Toxins from manure and fertiliser pouring into waterways in and around the Gulf of Mexico are causing harmful algal blooms, leading to widespread ‘dead zones’.

Oliver Milman

Tuesday 1 August 2017 10.26 EDT
First published on Tuesday 1 August 2017 07.19 EDT

The global meat industry, already implicated in driving global warming and deforestation, has now been blamed for fueling what is expected to be the worst “dead zone” on record in the Gulf of Mexico.

Toxins from manure and fertiliser pouring into waterways are exacerbating huge, harmful algal blooms that create oxygen-deprived stretches of the gulf, the Great Lakes and Chesapeake Bay, according to a new report by Mighty, an environmental group chaired by former congressman Henry Waxman.

It is expected that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) will this week announce the largest ever recorded dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico. It is expected to be larger than the nearly 8,200 square-mile area that was forecast for July – an expanse of water roughly the size of New Jersey.

Continued: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/aug/01/meat-industry-dead-zone-gulf-of-mexico-environment-pollution

[kevindavis007]

Looks like the war on Meat is out in the open now.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

The Guardian is an environmental kook site.

[kevindavis007]

The Guardian is an environmental kook site.

True, but there will be more calls for a Meat Tax here.

[Free Vulcan]

according to a new report by Mighty, an environmental group chaired by former congressman Henry Waxman.

Oh and I'm sure anything by Henry Waxman's group has zero exaggerations and is scientifically accurate down to the last dotted i and crossed t.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Oh and I'm sure anything by Henry Waxman's group has zero exaggerations and is scientifically accurate down to the last dotted i and crossed t.

[Cripplecreek]

True, but there will be more calls for a Meat Tax here.

What I remember from high school science class is that the Gulf was somewhat of a marine desert. Not lifeless exactly but not conducive of abundant life. Artificial structures have enhanced the ability of the Gulf to support life.