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[...] Scotts got permission from the USDA to plant larger fields for seed production. Farmers sowed 80 acres of bentgrass in Canyon County, Idaho, and 420 acres in Jefferson County, Oregon, north of Bend. The Oregon Department of Agriculture picked the site - an irrigated island in the sagebrush sea - to keep the plant far from the Willamette Valley. There, on the western side of the mountains, farmers grow forage and turf grass for a $1 billion-a-year seed industry.
Then two windstorms swept through the eastern Oregon fields in August of 2013, scattering flea-sized seeds well beyond the designated control area. Roundup-resistant pollen fertilized conventional bentgrass plants as far as 13 miles away.
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poverty, n.:
An unfortunate state that persists as long
as anyone lacks anything he would like to have.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 02 2018, @12:21PM (11 children)
I have some vegan gluten-free non-GMO no additive no preservative organic water for you. Only $29.99 a bottle, straight from my tap!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 02 2018, @12:27PM (3 children)
Do you live in Flint, MI?
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 02 2018, @12:35PM (2 children)
Our water comes from a "variety of sources", which may or may not include Flint, MI.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 02 2018, @02:40PM
Fresh from the Tijuana river.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 02 2018, @02:53PM
I RO all of my water. And also run it through various other filters. I can turn tea back into pure water. It's fairly inexpensive.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 02 2018, @12:55PM (3 children)
Yeah, but it has Round-up in it?
https://toxics.usgs.gov/highlights/glyphosate02.html [usgs.gov]
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Widespread_Glyphosate_Contamination_in_US.php [i-sis.org.uk]
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 02 2018, @01:32PM (2 children)
You don't seem to know what "straight from the tap" means. The relevant statistic: "Glyphosate Found in Urine of 93 Percent of Americans Tested [ecowatch.com]."
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 02 2018, @02:44PM (1 child)
So "straight from the tap" means "urine"?
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Monday July 02 2018, @04:08PM
I'll tell you, some taps have hot & cold, right? That one only has warm. As in 98.6 degrees. Enjoy!!!!
(Score: 3, Funny) by tangomargarine on Monday July 02 2018, @03:38PM (1 child)
How did you get the fluoridation out?
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 02 2018, @06:40PM
Well, no additives by me. Anything that was there when it came out of the tap doesn't count. We are talking about deceptive marking anyway so why not?
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday July 02 2018, @05:12PM
(the following, from the book Anguished English, which has a whole chapter dedicated to hilariously poor translations into English language. The sign is intended to assure restaurant patrons that the water is safe to drink.)
Sign seen in a foreign restaurant: All of the water served in this restaurant has been personally passed by the manager!
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