Monday, March 25, 2013

Do your strawberries taste slightly of oil?

Oceano Dunes ORV heaven has its own micro-climate of gasoline exhaust and Axe body spray; and just down wind of that is the Phillips 66 Santa Maria oil refinery. Appropriate, I figured.
But immediately downwind of that, under the black cloud of smoke belching from the oil refinery? Thousands of acres of strawberries and (Romaine) lettuce. Crazy. Day after day of that oil refinery exhaust can't be great for the plants or the soil they grow in. Or the people that eat the produce?

And, of course, there are hundreds of people toiling, bent over, in the fields as well. I can't imagine that air is great for their eyes, their lungs, their skin.

Well, at least it's good to learn where our produce comes from, I guess?

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