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Scientists Question Safety of Using Waste Water from Oil Fields on Food
- nlperguiy 9y agoIt's interesting how the focus is on almonds, grapes, tangerines, lemon etc. Much scarier than the polluted almond, is the amount of these pollutants that get into the grass, grains and other things the livestock industry in California uses. A big chunk of water is used by the livestock industry (what to feed the poor cow if not the polluted cheap water, who cares about the welfare of a cow), not the lemon guys. Bioaccumulation of some of these compounds is a much larger risk than eating a fist of almonds. There could be 100 times more of the pollutants in a fist of beef, given that the cow chews through literal tons of grass and grains before slaughter. Yet one should worry about that tiny drop of lemon juice on your steak.
- maxxxxx 9y agoHow can it be that companies can pump chemicals into the environment and call them "trade secrets"? I remember when fracking came up it was the same. They were pumping a ton of stuff into the ground but refused to say what it was. At a minimum they should be required to disclose what they are using.
- QAPereo 9y agoThey are, but only to our shattered, underfunded, and now backwards EPA.
- oceanghost 9y agoI'm really, really tired of being forced to be a subject in these health experiments.
- beamatronic 9y agoWhere are the rich getting their food from?