edit: Don’t do this. Embrace modernity and don’t pollute the soil.

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    My neighborhood soil is laced with arsenic and lead from an old foundry that used to be nearby.

    A bunch of my neighbors grow and eat food in that soil knowing it. It boggles my mind.

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      While I know it’s not convenient, have you considered… telling them?

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        Yea, and the response has been ‘I’ve been eating food I’ve grown here for 20 years and I’m totally fine!’

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          Just like the people that love to tell their grandparents lived a long life smoking tobacco everyday.

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            It wasn’t the smoking that didnt kill em. It was the minding their own fucking business.