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[–] 20 points 5 days ago* (3 children)

Sounds like a fertilizer shortage is coming.

Also, for the ones who don't know what sewage fertilizer is, it's the sludge that remains at the end of the process in water treatment plants. The good bits are human shit that we flush down the toilet. The bad bits are everything else that gets flushed down the drain. And there's a whole lot of bad that's flushed by industrial production, like PFAS. All that ends up in the sewage sludge. Then the sludge gets spread on farmer fields aa fertilizer. Then the extra compounds end up in the leaves of the lettuce in the grocery store.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago (1 child)

    Sounds like a fertilizer shortage is coming.

    Why? They just let farmers use the same fertilizer as before.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    I'm referring to the US-Israel war on Iran creating a fertilizer shortage.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago

    I doubt the EPA killed those rules because of incoming shortages. This administration hates all the rules that prevent corporations from doing anything they want. It would more surprising if EPA passed any new rules under Trump. Killing them is expected.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 days ago

    Reminds me of Kenney's performative poop-swim last year.

    While swimming in a body of water that’s off-limits and unsafe for humans or pets is not advisable, experts think Kennedy’s act signifies more.

    “The reason we’re concerned is not just that he’s doing it himself, we’re concerned [about] the precedent that he might be sending to disobey regulations that are intended to protect the public,” Malaty Rivera [an infectious disease epidemiologist] said. [...]

    “Not to mention the fact that this is a very eerie time where we’re seeing the dismantling, the defunding of the actual agencies that are intended to create these guidelines to protect people, including at EPA,” [...]

    “Just earlier this month, EPA announced it’s going to split up the main arm devoted to scientific research — they were going to essentially gut the team that is responsible for assessing health risks from chemical exposure.” - Huffpo, May '25

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  • [–] 7 points 5 days ago

    Sounds like the US has reached the eat shit phase of eat shit and die

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    [–] 2 points 5 days ago

    Yet another reason to avoid any and all food and drink from the usa. If it doesn’t give you a month of diarrhea, it’ll kill you.

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