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Farmers warn of higher food costs due to Iran war (www.bbc.com)

submitted 23 hours ago by veggibles@lemmy.wtf to c/world@quokk.au

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[–] KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca 4 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

We really need to figure out fertilizers that don't depend on petroleum at scale

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 3 points 20 hours ago

Using sewage combined with industrial waste streams isn't the best alternative either. Which is something they do. The pfas contamination gets all the attention on that, but there can be a lot of things n there besides just pfas.

One wouldn't think we would do something so incredibly dumb, and or malicious as it amounts to purposefully poisoning the food supply, but we do, and no one cares.

[–] WalleyeWarrior@midwest.social 2 points 18 hours ago

What we were doing before that was mining guano islands until they collapsed