Missouri may allow meatpacker to release wastewater into already-impaired river

3 years ago by usernamesAreTricky to c/green

The Pomme de Terre River is proposed for Missouri's list of impaired waters. It could also see wastewater from a meatpacking facility.

TL;DR:

A southwest Missouri river already contaminated with E. coli could soon receive up to 350,000 gallons of wastewater daily from a meatpacking facility.

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inasaba 19 points 3 years ago

And this as we're seeing stories from other areas about massive die-offs due to eutrophication. Animal waste is hugely eutrophying to waterways, and this is well-documented. We just never learn.

Stop eating meat, folks. Under current circumstances, the planet just can't take it.

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buwho 2 points 3 years ago

Capitalist dictators gonna dictate

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GrumbleGrim -9 points 3 years ago

I should stop eating meat because legislators are corrupt? That's an interesting thought process you have there. I'm sure your biases had no impact on your totally logical conclusion. /s

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doppelgangmember 8 points 3 years ago

Everyone is biased.

Why is your bias superior?

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usernamesAreTricky 6 points 3 years ago

Environmental problems are more inherent to meat production than that. The best-case production of animal products comes out worse than the worst case production of plants for human consumption

Transitioning to plant-based diets (PBDs) has the potential to reduce diet-related land use by 76%, diet-related greenhouse gas emissions by 49%, eutrophication by 49%, and green and blue water use by 21% and 14%, respectively, whilst garnering substantial health co-benefits

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Plant-based foods have a significantly smaller footprint on the environment than animal-based foods. Even the least sustainable vegetables and cereals cause less environmental harm than the lowest impact meat and dairy products [9].

https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/14/8/1614/htm

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rocaverde 3 points 3 years ago

@GrumbleGrim @inasaba you should stop eating meat because it lowers your carbon footprint. Simple.

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hh93 2 points 3 years ago

You are enabling that corruption though and have the active choice to not do

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