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Meat industry blamed for largest-ever 'dead zone' in Gulf of MexicoA new report shows toxins from suppliers to companies like Tyson Foods are pouring into waterways, causing marine life to leave or dieToxins 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 MilmanTuesday 1 August 2017 10.26 EDTFirst published on Tuesday 1 August 2017 07.19 EDTThe 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
The Guardian is an environmental kook site.
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.
True, but there will be more calls for a Meat Tax here.