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Meat industry blamed for largest-ever 'dead zone' in Gulf of Mexico
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of The Guardian (One of the UK's leading newspapers)
Posted: October 23rd, 2017
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/aug/01/meat-ind...
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. 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. This problem is worsening and worsening and regulation isnt reducing the scope of this pollution, said Lucia von Reusner, campaign director at Mighty. These companies practices need to be far more sustainable. The Mighty report analyzed supply chains of agribusiness and pollution trends and found that a highly industrialized and centralized factory farm system was ... bringing fertilisers into waterways. Tyson Foods is identified by the report as a dominant influence in the pollution. This pollution has also been linked to drinking water contamination. Last week, a report by Environmental Working Group found that in 2015 water systems serving seven million Americans in 48 states contained high levels of nitrates ... linked to an increased risk of contracting certain cancers.
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