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["Michael Burns" <michael AT fingerlakespermaculture.org>]

The controversial gas-drilling practice is tainting water. Your food might be
next.

By Barry Estabrook
Originally published by Gilt Taste

There's a stunning moment in the Academy Award-nominated documentary Gasland,
where a man touches a match to his running faucet—to have it explode in a ball
of fire. This is what hydraulic fracturing, a process of drilling for natural
gas known as "fracking," is doing to many drinking water supplies across the
country. But the other side of fracking—what it might do to the food eaten by
people living hundreds of miles from the nearest gas well—has received little
attention...
http://www.rodaleinstitute.org/20110525_what-will-fracking-do-do-our-food-supply




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