Large amounts of nitrogenous fertilizer ultimately gets carried along by the Mississippi River into the Gulf of Mexico, causing algae to grow at ferocious rates; the algae in turn block out sunlight and consume all the oxygen, suffocating fish that never had the slightest thing to do with corn production in the first place.
大量的氮肥最終還會隨密西西比河流進墨西哥灣，促使海藻大量生長，遮蔽海面陽光也耗竭了氧氣，導致無辜魚類窒息而死。