Fracking Beans

Small farmers in India are ramping up their production of guar beans.

Guar gum, which is also used to make sauces and ice cream, is a main ingredient of the hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, process used to extract oil and gas from oil shale.

It may seem bizarre,
but to frack you need guar
as a filler.

Now the farmer must race
to keep pace
with the shale oil driller.