Let me guess . . . if someone dumps a carcinogen/neurotoxin into the Potomac . . . like say Agent Orange . . . FOXNews would say the US had not been attacked with a chemical weapon. Your analogy is wrong b/c typically fertilizer runoff leads to nitrogen/phosphorus toxicity which promotes algae overgrowth and fish kills . . . a more appropriate analogy would be pesticide runoff or overflow from hog waste lagoons. If you think neither is serious threat to public health then you need to educate yourself b/c clearly you should be smarter than that.
US farms would be less productive without fertilizer but of course my state has some of the best arable land in the world . . . but choose crops based on profit NOT need . . . hence our #1 crop remains tobacco . . . I guess the 10-20-20 we use so liberally is designed to help RJ Reynolds and Philip Morris feed the world nicotine.
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