Continued Reflections On East Palestine As It Relates To OUR Foodshed...
Had an interesting follow-up with a person this week as we continued to discuss any dangers that we might be in here in Central Ohio as it relates to the disaster in East Palestine.
His response floored me...
He said, "Benji, there is something else that I am way more concerned about. We have a sanctioned chemical spill EVERY YEAR in the US. It's called glyphosate, and 99.9% of our farms put it on 99.9% of the fields that surround us on all sides. 280 million pounds of it get poured out right onto our soils...and it's actually APPROVED to be done that way!!!"
If you have been with us for any length of time at all, I'm sure you've heard us talk about the dangers of glyphosate (Round-Up) to the human body so I won't get into those details here...just picture this...in fact, just be ready to look for this in the spring...every spring for that matter.
You will drive by a field just as everything is REALLY starting to grow... the grass is exploding. BUT, that square or rectangle of somewhere between 5 and 500 acres is completely dead. There is no other way to describe it...it's barren.
Common Sense time...WHY in the WORLD, if the grass that is literally bordering it on all sides is exploding with LIFE, would that much land, be in that type of stress, where not even a SINGLE GREEN ANYTHING was popping out of the ground?????
These are the conditions that we find the fields of our country in.
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So you ask yourself, how do the farmers get something to grow in those conditions each year?? Sit with that...
To Be Continued...
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