Will Allen: Agriculture Is One of the Most Polluting and Dangerous Industries
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Will Allen: Agriculture Is One of the Most Polluting and Dangerous Industries : Chelsea Green
While the regulators were twiddling their thumbs and looking the other way, they were getting away with murder. No, I’m not talking about Wall Street. I’m talking about the Industrial Agriculture Complex. Unsustainable farming practices, synthetic fertilizers, and widespread pesticide use accounts for a massive portion of total US carbon output—and not just carbon dioxide: methane and nitrous oxide, which are far worse. And that’s not all. The monstrous excesses of Big Ag include killing the soil, polluting our water, and mistreating millions of animals.
Will Allen, author of The War on Bugs, takes on Big Agriculture in this piece for Alternet:
via Will Allen: Agriculture Is One of the Most Polluting and Dangerous Industries : Chelsea Green.
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