- Three years ago the LA Times published an Associated
Press article "Toxic Waste Used as Fertilizer on Farms Reported".
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- The article stated that in Seattle, toxic heavy metals,
chemicals and radioactive wastes are being recycled as fertilizer and spread
over farmers' field nationwide--and there is no federal law requiring that
they be listed as ingredients.
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- The issue came to light in the central Washington town
of Quincy, population 4,000, when Mayor Patty Martin led an investigation
by local farmers concerned about poor yields and sickly cattle (see WA
Free Press "Poisoning Ourselves: Toxic waste in fertilizer" Mar
2003 --Ed). Unfortunately, at this time the use of industrial waste as
fertilizer ingredient was a growing national phenomenon.
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- At that same time in Gore, Oklahoma, a uranium-processing
plant got rid of low-level radioactive waste by licensing it as liquid
fertilizer and spraying it over 9,000 acres if grazing land. And at Camas,
Washington, lead-laced waste from a pulp mill was hauled to farms and spread
over crops destined for livestock feed. While in Moxee City, Washington,
dark powder from two Oregon steel mills was poured from rail cars into
silos at Bay Zinc Co. under a federal hazardous waste storage permit. Then
it was emptied from the silos for use as fertilizer. The exact same material.
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- The Federal and State Governments encouraged this kind
of recycling, which saved money for big industry and conserved space in
hazardous- waste landfills. However, the substances found in recycled fertilizers
included cadmium, lead, arsenic, radioactive materials and dioxins. The
wastes came from incineration of medical and municipal wastes, and from
heavy industries.
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- Because I happen to run the newest state permitted medical
waste treatment plant in California, and am acutely aware of the hazards
of treating such waste, I ask: Why isn't this recycled fertilizer brought
up now in the case of Mad Cow Disease. Why did are Federal and State Government
allow such contamination and why did the farmers do this to their own land?
Who is covering this up? Who benefited from this travesty? Who approved
this in the first place? And why isn't anything being done to those who
allowed this to happen to our nation's heartland?
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- I for one want answers. And I want those responsible
for this to be brought to justice. They deliberately poisoned our nations
food chain for profit, and should be punished as traitors to the American
people.
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- Karl Niemiec, Director of Media Services, Sanitec West,
CA
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- This more the reason to buy local so one can ascertain
the source of one's food...
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- http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/chris/2005/06/09/
- the_significance_of_buying_local_food.htm
- The Significance Of Buying Local Food
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- http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/chris/2006/05/07/100
- _mile_diet_local_food_recipe_for_health.htm
- 100 Mile Diet - Local Food Recipe For Health
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- Chris Gupta
- http://tinyurl.com/253ass
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- Inge's Added Comment: The regulators definitely need
regulating. One has to wonder if they are actually living on the same planet,
for they and their families will also have to live in the nest that they
are fouling. There is just one environment, and one ecology.
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- For over a half century - starting with the Dilution
Solution to Pollution for Fluoride - the "non-storable industrial
toxic waste" which was then marketed by the invented "tooth-fairy"
. In order to claim the prevention of "tooth decay", they had
to embark on a massive propaganda campaign of TRUTH DECAY! Apparently "toxic"
can be translated into "beneficial" if one changes a few definitions
and dogmas - and makes pseudo-scientific DECLARATIONS of "indisputable
and indispensable benefit".
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- Interestingly the Stalin's Russia and Hitler's Germany
were using fluoride well before the "tooth-fairy" tail. This
begs the question as to why they are so eager subject us to it and "explains
much about why Americans are so apathetic and lethargic about the very
real dangers crushing our Republic. The American people simply have no
will to resist and you can see it all across this country. Fluoride was
introduced into the drinking water in this country around 1954. Think about
it."....
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- Extracted from: http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/chris/2005/05/17
- /fluoride_to_make_prisoners_stupid_docile.htm
- Fluoride To Make Prisoners 'stupid & Docile - CG
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- Apparently, they are still at it. Persuade the public
that these "toxics" are harmless, indeed, even "good for
you", and disperse it under the umbrella of "fertilizer".
How convenient! Apparently "heavy metals spread everywhere" levels
the playing field - and everyone will be able to share equally in the bonanza
of free toxic metals and industrial chemicals..
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- At one point of this kind of "solution insanity",
radioactive sludge was dispersed as fertilizer - unfortunately the frogs
turned up with extra legs, or none - and that was too noticeable to be
denied. Our corporation-controlled "democratic" governments continue
to pursue the "let's just disperse the poison everywhere - hope that
no one notices - and just cover it all up with secrecy and/or plenty of
propaganda - PR - Predictable Rhetoric - from hired "science-shills".
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- As part of the equation: There will never be enough money
in the tax-payer kitty to pay for the health-destruction consequences -
one of which is a population that is so brain/nerve damaged that it is
unable to function. We already have an unsupportable number of children
- classified as 'special needs' - who are not capable of functioning normally,
without extra-ordinary support. How many more children are we prepared
to sacrifice?
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- If government agendas, government regulations, and government
propaganda and pseudo-science would stop CREATING the health-breakdown
problems, the medical budget would be more than adequate. As long as government
pursues the path of health and environmental destruction, there is no amount
of money that will remedy or reverse the unpardonable, but preventable,
consequences.
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- Folks, this is our environment, our soil, our food, our
water, our SURVIVAL. Keep the nest clean! Even if it means that we ALL
have to get out of our easy chairs and take a definite and unrelenting
stand. These government "solution-finders - (ignoramouses or criminals)
must be held to account before they wreak this kind of irreversible toxic
damage on all those whom they are "supposedly" mandated to protect.
- God, Protect me from these protectors!
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- Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007
- From: Chris Abbott
- chrisabbott12003@yahoo.ca
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- Action Alert
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- http://www.ecobc.org/Action_Alert/2005/11/ActionAlert1701/index.cfm
- BC PROPOSES TOXIC WASTE TO FERTILIZE CROPS
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- B.C. -- They are at it again! The BC government
is proposing, after only 30 days of internet-based consultation, to allow
the almost uncontrolled landspreading of pulp mill sludge, lime dregs,
and fly ash (that's the stuff out of the pollution control devices at the
top of the stack they catch the pollution that now BC Environment
wants to spread on farmland.)
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- The Code of Practice requires testing for only 11 metals
worse than the last time out in 2000, when at least the sludge was
required to be tested for all the compounds listed in the Contaminated
Sites Act! Even then we protested that this was inadequate because of the
mix of compounds in pulp mill sludge: No one knows all of the contaminants
in pulp mill sludge. We do know that it contains a variety of heavy metals,
and chlorinated and non-chlorinated benzenes and phenolics (PAH) and that
the amount appears to vary from sample to sample. Nor does anyone know
what the actual environmental impacts of landspreading sludge are, because
for almost 25 years, industry across North America has been denying environmentalists'
efforts to get some honest testing done.
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- The new Code of Practice has no recourse for neighbours
of the sludge site, does not require records to be publicly available,
and throws the burden on to the medical health officers to object if the
application is to agricultural land or within a drinking watershed. Even
then, all the medical health officer could do is request that the Regional
Environment Director add additional management standards.
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- Looking at the few criteria the regulation does establish,
the presentation may be called at best, disingenuous. The BC Statement
Of Intentions For The Code Of Practice says: "Most of these numbers
are consistent with the standards for metals in fertilizers and supplements
established by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and adopted by the Canadian
Council of Ministers of the Environment (CCME) Guidelines for Compost Quality."
- However closer examination reveals that NONE of the metals
levels meet the CCME standard for unrestricted or agricultural use, and
in the case of mercury the BC reg even exceeds by three times the CCME
maximum acceptable level for restricted use!
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- The regulation proposes that sludge should be handled
in compliance with the Organic Matter Recycling Regulation, primarily intended
for sewage sludge not industrial waste, but a ministry audit of 10 Vancouver
island sewage sludge operations in 2003-04 found that "Overall, none
of the sites met all significant requirements of the OMRR."Organic
Matter Recycling Regulation Audit Report 2003-2004.
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