Richard Rathe<p>Great article about <a href="https://c.im/tags/BigAg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigAg</span></a>...</p><p><a href="https://riverraccoon.substack.com/p/seeing-red" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">riverraccoon.substack.com/p/se</span><span class="invisible">eing-red</span></a></p><p>"Water from the <a href="https://c.im/tags/RedRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RedRiver</span></a> flows through <a href="https://c.im/tags/LakeWinnipeg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LakeWinnipeg</span></a> on its journey to <a href="https://c.im/tags/HudsonBay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HudsonBay</span></a>. Lake Winnipeg is huge—the world’s 11th largest freshwater lake by surface area (even larger than Lake Ontario and about the same as Lake Erie) and has the world’s largest ‘lakeshed’, i.e. area of land draining to a lake. It supports a large commercial and sport fishery for several fish species including walleye, which are a peculiar green color there due to the mineral content of the water."</p><p>"The <a href="https://c.im/tags/water_quality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>water_quality</span></a> in Lake Winnipeg is tanking because of “rapidly increased <a href="https://c.im/tags/livestock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>livestock</span></a> production and use of synthetic <a href="https://c.im/tags/fertilizer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fertilizer</span></a> in the Red River Valley, with smaller contributions of phosphorus from the city of Winnipeg and other human development in the Red and Winnipeg River basins .” Nutrient-driven <a href="https://c.im/tags/toxic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>toxic</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/algae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>algae</span></a> blooms have doubled in size since the 1990s due to increases in Red River phosphorus levels, a common component of livestock manure."</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Agriculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Agriculture</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Money" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Money</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pollution</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Regulations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Regulations</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/BigAgriculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigAgriculture</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a></p>