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superflit on March 11, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: End the Ethanol Rip-Off

It is drastic. My sister worked in one of the farms...

The crop is not good? It went spoiled?

Well light this matches and watch it burn.. yes literally

The cities nearby suffer a lot with respiratory problems specially kids.

But you will not see that on News the companies pay a lot to "promote" their eco images

dataker on March 11, 2015 [–]

They actually burn it to avoid harm to the workers and use its ash to fertilize their land. However, mechanization has reduced the need to burn fields and pollution has gradually been decreased.

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