[CRNMC] Fwd: Wonderful

[Beth Brenneman]

*Eating fracked food really sucks!!!*
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From: RL Miller <info at climatehawksvote.com>
Date: Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 3:43 PM
Subject: Wonderful
To: Beth Brenneman <storyteller2069 at gmail.com>


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Beth:

We all know the oil industry is polluting our climate. But did you know you
could be eating food grown with contaminated oil wastewater?

Oil companies in California have been selling their wastewater to local
irrigation districts where farmers get the water to grow food sold all over
the United States!

California Governor Jerry Brown has refused to stop oil-water irrigation,
saying that people like us opposed to fracking “don’t know what the hell
they’re talking about.”

Our food should be grown with clean and safe water — demand that Gov. Jerry
Brown BAN the use of oil wastewater to irrigate our food!
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As I drive through California up from Los Angeles to the capitol building
in Sacramento, I see how food and oil production are so shockingly
intertwined here: oil pump jacks are bobbing in the same fields as rows of
food crops.

*In addition to producing a majority of the fruits, vegetables and nuts
that are sold all over the United States, California is the third largest
oil-producing state in the country. *California’s easy-to-reach oil is long
since gone, so oil companies are now fracking with water, hundreds of
thousands of gallons of water for each frack job.

Every single barrel of oil, whether fracked or conventionally extracted,
results in significant amounts of contaminated wastewater, and to get rid
of it, oil companies have been selling it to local irrigation districts for
cheap. This wastewater, which may contain toxic chemicals used in fossil
fuel extraction, then ends up in the water used to irrigate crops.

*Popular food companies that sell products all over the country use this
tainted water on their crops, including The Wonderful Company,* known for
brands such as Halos, POM Wonderful juice, and Wonderful Pistachios.

If we all pledge to stop buying *any* product from Wonderful, *we can use
our collective consumer power and pressure this company to call for an end
to this dangerous practice once and for all.*

We are collaborating with Daily Kos and some of the nation’s best health
and food-safety advocacy groups in the nation on this effort, including
Breast Cancer Action, Food & Water Watch and the Organic Consumers
Association.

Tell Wonderful: I won't buy your products until you demand that Governor
Jerry Brown stop the practice of oil wastewater irrigation.
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Your fellow climate hawk,

RL Miller

P.S. I will be delivering petition signatures TOMORROW so please add your
name today
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References

Central Valley's growing concern: Crops raised with oil field water, *Los
Angeles Times*
http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-drought-oil-
water-20150503-story.html

Gov. Brown clashes with environmentalists over fracking, *San Francisco
Chronicle*
http://www.sfchronicle.com/science/article/Gov-Brown-clashes-with-
environmentalists-over-11151180.php






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