Dead Zone Grows With Summer Flooding
Summer floodin’ had me a blast
Summer floodin’ happened so fast
Scientists say the dead zone at the delta of the Mississippi River has reached over 8,000 square miles. The heavy summer flooding has brought all kinds of fertilizer and pesticides down river from Iowa and the rest of the corn belt. Corn is a dirty crop and has an outreach far beyond its overly fertilized soil. Check out the documentary, King Corn. We wrote about it a few months ago and it has a lot of info on the affect corn has on the ecosystem. Since corn farmers generally aren’t rotating crops, they have to soak the fields with ammonia and fertilizer to get the crop to grow year-after-year. This is leaving this huge dead zone. The lack of oxygen is killing all of the wildlife and the entire ecosystem. Watch more at this CNN video below.
Wow! And that is one BIG reason why we are doing what we do…that is supporting the organic industry right here in the USA. Of course we are doing cotton, not corn. But cotton is right up there in numbers with the amount of pesticides and synthetic fertilizers used on the crop. Ugh! Even if you don’t buy our products, PLEASE support organic farming at any level, it is so important for everyone.