In 1962, a biologist named Rachel Carson published a groundbreaking book called Silent Spring that sounded an alarm that led to the birth of the modern environmental movement. The book warned that massive use of a potent insecticide called DDT was killing off huge numbers of birds leading to what she called a Silent Spring.
DDT was banned a decade later, but the hundreds of millions of acres of corn, soybeans, alfalfa and other crops used to feed the billions of farmed animals in the US are still swimming in pesticides, herbicides, insecticides, chemical fertilizers and other deadly stuff that has –among many other horrible things – killed more the 15% of all birds in the country along with billions of butterflies, bees and other essential pollinators.
We are heading toward a permanent Silent Spring unless we are able to convince a substantial number of people to eliminate or drastically reduce their consumption of animal products.
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DDT was banned a decade later, but the hundreds of millions of acres of corn, soybeans, alfalfa and other crops used to feed the billions of farmed animals in the US are still swimming in pesticides, herbicides, insecticides, chemical fertilizers and other deadly stuff that has –among many other horrible things – killed more the 15% of all birds in the country along with billions of butterflies, bees and other essential pollinators.
We are heading toward a permanent Silent Spring unless we are able to convince a substantial number of people to eliminate or drastically reduce their consumption of animal products.
Our source for this meme is FoodManufacturing.com
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