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And this as we're seeing stories from other areas about massive die-offs due to eutrophication. Animal waste is hugely eutrophying to waterways, and this is well-documented. We just never learn.
Stop eating meat, folks. Under current circumstances, the planet just can't take it.
Capitalist dictators gonna dictate
This isn't necessarily a bad thing. If the meatpacking facility is treating it's water appropriately and the water quality is getting regularly tested as I imagine it would be then it's entirely possible that the meat packing plant could actually improve the quality of the water. Whether or not that will actually happen is another matter, but it's not cause for immediate doomerism.