{"id":1014,"date":"2010-04-22T16:41:41","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T16:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=452"},"modified":"2010-04-22T16:41:41","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T16:41:41","slug":"chemical-alley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1014","title":{"rendered":"‘chemical alley’"},"content":{"rendered":"

We headed out of New Orleans yesterday toward Baton Rouge, Louisiana. \u00a0 We picked a backroad (LA 18) that looked on the map like it was going to be a ‘scenic byway,’ and it was. \u00a0 That is, it was ‘scene’ after ‘scene’ of some of the biggest<\/em> chemical \u00a0plants we’ve seen throughout the country. \u00a0 There was Monsanto, Dow Chemical, oil refineries… and even a nuclear \u00a0power plant \u00a0site. \u00a0 Sandwhiched in between were small — and quite poor — primarily rural Black villages. \u00a0 We stopped in Vascherie, where I talked to some older gentleman sitting in the shade in front of a general store. \u00a0 At the town limits here is a sign that says: \u00a0 “No Thanks Petroplex, our health is not for sale!”<\/strong> \u00a0 \u00a0According to the men, the citizens here were mounting a spirited fight to keep yet another refinery (with \u00a0even more \u00a0potential pollution, etc.) from coming in. \u00a0 (Petroplex International is proposing a petroleum storage facility with a 10 million barrel capacity in St. James Parish, Louisiana.) \u00a0 Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 I couldn’t help but wonder that if this was a White affluent rural area, would there be all these toxic chemical plants, refineries, a nuclear power plant…? \u00a0 Of course not. \u00a0 Note 2:<\/strong> \u00a0 In the last blog entry, I wrote about the phenomenal amount of toxic chemical farm runoff \u00a0into the Mississippi River watershed. \u00a0Much of this is farm chemicals from Monsanto. \u00a0 And while Monsanto (some organic farmers refer to the company as: “Monsatan”) is part of the problem, so are the farmers using the chemicals, and so are all of us consumers creating a demand for this, in essence, “chemically treated” food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We headed out of New Orleans yesterday toward Baton Rouge, Louisiana. \u00a0 We picked a backroad (LA 18) that looked on the map like it was going to be a ‘scenic byway,’ and it was. \u00a0 That is, it was …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}