For more than half my life I lived beside the Mississippi River. In my childhood we ate river shrimp, smaller but tastier than salt water varieties. No longer. The river at New Orleans is too polluted. Its major pollutants are chemical runoffs from corn, cotton and soy farms upstream. River shrimp aren’t the only casualty. In the Gulf of Mexico, starting at the mouths of the river and spreading west along the coast, is a dead zone, which expands and contracts during the year. The rush of [...]
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