The word “fertilizer” evokes a pastoral image of grazing cattle transforming a sun-drenched field of grass into nutrients for crops, beckoning us back to simpler times. However, the super-productive modern agricultural system is fed by mineral phosphate, the principal American source being Florida, where its strip-mined extraction devastates vast areas of undeveloped wildlands, and ends with a dead zone in the ocean, where it finally comes to rest after wreaking havoc on the soil, watersheds and ecosystems in its path. Total fertilizer sales in 2004 alone were over $12 billion. Also in 2004, more than 15 million tons of US-produced fertilizer were exported to foreign countries. In 2005, 58 million tons of fertilizer were applied to US soil. The economic and political power of the cartel has led to minimal EPA oversight, resulting in a lack of regulation concerning the radioactivity of the industry’s waste, for example.
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