A compounding issue for food production would be contamination of farmland and waterways. While much of the fallout would have decayed, and there were a large number of airbursts in CONUS, strikes on petroleum and other industries would also have released toxic industrial chemical plumes. For example, the strike on the Westlake refinery across from Lake Charles, LA, would have taken any TIC plume for the resulting fires across the farmlands of central Louisiana. It’s mostly corn and soybeans there, which are valuable agricultural and human feedstocks.
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