If you've seen the documentary Gasland, you know all to well about the horrors of fracking. If you haven't, here's the short version: Fracking is when energy companies drill deep into the ground to release embedded natural gas from the rock below. The only problem is, the whole enterprise is pretty uncontrolled and unregulated and the natural gas seeps into the air, and most frightening, into the water supply. And then there are the incredibly poisonous chemicals they use in the process and put back into the environment. Fracking sites are everywhere across the country.
There are disturbing scenes in the film where people who live around fracking sites can actually light their water on fire. Check out the picture above. The water coming right into the house is so contaminated it's flammable. It's not hard to imagine how quickly that contamination can spread to our food supply.
Now a new Salon.com article offers a hard look at how the practice of fracking is contaminating our food supply. The article picks up where Gasland left off and is no less scary.
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