Just need to vent...

How 'bout dat: a Reuters article on "regenerative agriculture" containing not one word on what "regenerative agriculture" is supposed to mean:

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/global-food-beverage-giants-join-forces-regenerative-agriculture-2026-05-19/

 

Its seems plants and virtually all living things are regenerative.

 

No easy access to Reuters here. But here is a link describing regenerative agriculture:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s44264-025-00097-7

 

"The crack in the tank discovered by firefighters on late Saturday relieved some of the pressure within the tank, Covey said.

While officials were confident that the crack wouldn't lead to any chemical leaks, ..."​

Could the journalist have asked the question "so, if the crack has relieved some of the pressure, what's been coming out?"

I guess somewhere I read that MMA fumes are heavier than air, so if there's air-filled headspace at the top (and there's supposed to be) and the crack is up there, maybe only air has been venting. Still, it would be nice if the report said that.

 

All of it will be used, so some form of it will be dispersed into nature. Some will be spilled into nature in smaller amounts and no one usually knows anything about it. I remember they used to have vats of trichlorethylene in the open to clean components, people exposed every day, had their bare hands in it. They used to just dump it out behind the buildings, which in those days around Sunnyvale CA probably was fruit orchards and new subdivisions going in. Later it came out trichlorethylene was a cancer causing substance so it was replaced with trichlorethane.
Unions helped protect workers, but these weren’t union probably until much later if ever. The governments had to pass protection legislation.

 

As a kid of the '60s, my dad was much more thoughtful than just dumping old motor oil and or radiator antifreeze. Motor oil along the chain link fence was used to kill the grass from a growing up through the links.