Toxic Algae Blooms
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The powers that be on Google have removed the "gmoevidence.com" site. The info that I tried to post concerned a Canadian study that found that glyphosate contributes greatly to the creation of toxic algae blooms. Anyway, here's another post about it. Check out:
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LoCo
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They touch on this a little bit in the book Farmageddon. I highly recommend.
Forest Nymph
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Ok. Note more importantly that animal agriculture, particularly meat ag of cows and pigs leads to this. I'm anti GMO too but let's be real here, people who cultivate meat are doing the most damage even over people who still engage in animal husbandry of chickens and goats for eggs and milk. Meat is killing the planet. Full stop murder is the case. Everything else could be altered and become manageable if meat ag disappeared and we took full advantage of renewable energy tech.
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Algae blooms occur naturally in our waterways. Fertilizers and animal waste from run-off from farmers' fields increase algae growth. Glyphosate exacerbates the problem by excessively speeding up the growth of these algae blooms. Even if it was only the fertilizers that aren't made from animal waste that were spilling into our lakes and rivers, it would still be a huge problem.
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The link that I shared in the first post on this thread now works. I don't know why it didn't work before. It's a mystery, I guess. -- 
Anyway, here's another link that I think explains a little better why we need to eliminate glyphosate from being used on America's farms.
www.ecowatch.com
Anyway, here's another link that I think explains a little better why we need to eliminate glyphosate from being used on America's farms.
Glyphosate Sprayed on GMO Crops Linked to Lake Erie’s Toxic Algae Bloom
Glyphosate, the controversial main ingredient in Monsanto's Roundup and other herbicides, is being connected to Lake Erie's troubling algae blooms, which has fouled drinking water and suffocated and killed marine life in recent years.Phosphorus—attributed to farm runoff carried by the Maumee...
www.ecowatch.com
