[CRNMC] [crnmc-discuss] Fwd: Wonderful

Tue Sep 19 06:20:20 PDT 2017

Another powerful response is GOING LOCAL!!! Food forests and gardens in our communities... food growing in backyards, frontyards, courtyards, around parks, libraries, schools, hospitals, and churches. Introduce alternative methods of exchange - cooperatives, a time bank, and local/complimentary currency. Hold community events where food and recipes are shared, glean teams sort and process, and reciprocal learning is offered to share skills/ knowledge of things such as urban foraging, gardening and landscaping for biodiversity, composting, tool making, natural building, local meat and dairy production, etc.

In Mendocino County, less than 10% of the food we buy is locally produced. Consumption of heavily processed foods are wrecking havoc on our health - and the World Health Org. has declared commercially produced red meat and all processed meat products, to be Class 1 carcinogens... in the same category with cigarettes and asbestos.

We are the ones we have been waiting for!

In Peace & Gratitude,
Tammy

On September 18, 2017, at 3:54 PM, Beth Brenneman <storyteller2069 at gmail.com> wrote:

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>

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! 

Add your name » 

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.

Your fellow climate hawk,

RL Miller

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

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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