Fisherman Terry Pizani turns his captain’s wheel with a mournful expression on his face. Far below, the fishing grounds off the Louisiana coast where the 63-year-old has made a living for five decades have become an aquatic graveyard known as a “dead zone.”
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The dead zone is the result of a confluance of events starting with agra-farms on the Mississippi Delta and fertilizer runoff into the river, killing fish all the way out to the gulf. In addition, in-proper crop rotation results in the water runoff eroding the banks, deltas and levies, resulting in flooding.
The ultimate culprit? Our “corn is king” economic structure, High Fructose Corn Syrup in all our foods, feed cattle corn (not their natural food), E85 Corn Ethanol…….
Alter the Eco and keep up the good fight.