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Is rocket fuel making truly organic farming impossible?

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TheWatchers, 9/10/13

It is now distributed widely throughout North America, as depicted by the image below: 

Perchlorate and the Post-Organic Era 

Perchlorate is an environmental pollutant primarily associated with releases by defense contractors, military operations and aerospace programs, as it is a key ingredient in rocket fuel. It is now found in virtually all humans tested, and it is continually making its way up the food chain through ground and drinking water, into feed and edible plants, animals products, milk and breast milk - contaminating conventional and organically grown food, alike.

In 2005 the Journal of Environmental Science and Technology published a study on perchlorate levels in North America. They found: 

Pollution Scare: 6,600 Dead Pigs Pulled From River

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Weather.com - 3/13/13, Associated Press

 

 

" This is not only an environmental issue but also a public moral problem. What's been polluted is not only Shanghai's river water but also the spirit of our country people."

 

The surge in dumping of dead pigs — believed to be from swine farms in the upstream Jiaxing area of neighboring Zhejiang province — has followed police campaigns against the sale of pork products made from diseased pigs.

 

For more info on this story click: Pollution Scare

Dust storm shrouds Tokyo in haze

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Heraldsun.com - 3/10/13

 

 

 

 

A HUGE dust storm has hit Tokyo, blanketing the city with brown dust that darkened the skies and rapidly transformed what had been a clear and sunny day.

 

 Meteorologists said the phenomenon was caused by a sudden cold front, and was not linked with the suffocating pollution that hung over the Chinese capital Beijing last winter. 

 

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China’s Pollution-Fighting Farm

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Editors note: This story is a little older, but demonstrates that China is working on its pollution problems. However, with limitations.

 

theworld.org-7/11/11, Mary Kay Magistad

 

 

China has some of the world’s worst water pollution. And the country’s farms are responsible for a big part of that problem. So there is a certain irony in visiting a farm here that purports to actually help reduce pollution from other sources. But that’s the claim of a 100-acre hydroponic farm in China’s southwest.

The farm on the edge of Dianchi lake grows some 30 types of vegetables, including long green rows of lettuce and spinach that sway in the wind and float on platforms with their roots in the water.

 

For more information and recorded interview follow this link.

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