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Not to counter your comment as I agree, but: > nasty chemicals into the water like hydrogen peroxide Hydrogen peroxide really isn't that problematic. It is pr
by belval 3y ago
Not to counter your comment as I agree, but:
> nasty chemicals into the water like hydrogen peroxide
Hydrogen peroxide really isn't that problematic. It is pretty unstable and reacts into oxygen and water. It kills algae and bacteria in what is likely the cleanest way possible.
- mtlmtlmtlmtl 3y agoFair enough. That was just the one I remembered off the top of my head. Always happy to be corrected! But they're using all sorts of different stuff. It's been so bad at times they've basically been throwing spaghetti at a wall to see if it sticks. Most of it there's not even any research to suggest the drugs they're trying are safe ecologically. But they try it anyway; it's a woefully underregulated industry right now. And there's the general problem that any indiscriminate use of antibiotics(in the general definition of the word, not the one restricted to bacteria) in a factory farming context is bound to lead to the development of highly resistant pathogens. That just follows from Darwin, really.