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

  • inasaba@lemmy.mlEnglish
    223·
    1 year 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.

    • GrumbleGrim@discuss.tchncs.de
      414·
      1 year 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

      • usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.mlOP
        5·
        1 year 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

        […]

        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

      • Hannes@lemm.ee
        42·
        1 year ago

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