Here’s an example of when doing something that sounds like it is good for the environment turns out to be toxic.
Oil giant Chevron recycles 21 million gallons of oil field waste water each day and sells it to farmers who use it on about 45,000 acres of crops, about 10% of Kern County’s farmland, in California’s Central Valley.
Chemicals like acetone and methylene chloride are used. Government authories have required only limited testing of recycled irrigation water.
Plants do uptake toxics from the soil.
This is not a good idea.
And of course, “watered with toxic recycled oil field waste water” is not on the label of these foods.
LA TImes: Central Valley’s growing concern: Crops raised with oil field water
