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It has been known for decades that agriculture runoff increases the intensity and duration of red tide. Why do you care so much for defending practices that li

• kcplate 3y ago
  > Why do you care so much for defending practices that literally poison the earth, people, animals, and ruin the economy for many working class Floridians? So do you want to try and (unsuccessfully) explain where exactly I did that in my comment? Or are you just one for throwing bombs and straw men out here and hoping something lands? If you are going to make an argument against big sugar, make it. Instead your comment was a weak DeSantis political crack. Fine, you don’t like him…neither do I, but he wasn’t responsible for algae blooms that have been happening for decades. If you had actually understood my comment you would have realized that I was saying this was a multiple decade issue that is not just confined to the current political leadership. Both parties own the mess because in Florida both parties are deep in bed with big ag. Go read a Hiaasen book, they are fiction but can give you a helluva lot more insight into Florida, ag industry, the environment, and its relationship with our government. Of course only do that if it is truly your interest. If your interest in it only extends as far as you can use it to push your political sensibilities, kindly go pound sand, because you are actually useless to those of us who actually care about these things.