Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Has the Obama administration learned about the health effects of sewage sludge on food crops


Has the Obama administration learned about the health effects of sewage sludge on food crops?
Michelle Obama tried to grow a vegetable garden, but found there had been sewage sludge used as fertilizer during the Clinton Administration. The National Parks Service tested the sludge and found lead in it. The same kind of sewage sludge is used extensively as agricultural fertilizer. A lot of people protest this, including neighbors due to the run-off. Why haven't the scientists and administrators of the EPA and HHS determined that this is not healthy and prohibited the practice. Instead, we see people and communities engaged in court battles to stop the practice, and local Departments of Environmental Protection and state politicians supporting the polluters. How much more will using sewage sludge on food increase U.S. morbidity and the cost of health care?
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1 :
Whether the Obama's learned anything or not and the EPA and HHS aside: Where is the Food and Drug Administration? Although this may be an environmental problem, why isn't the Food and Drug Administration protecting us and our children from this potentially destructive lead laced food? Lead in the diet of an infant or young child can be extremely destructive to the child's brain development. Never forget that home grown vegetables are better for you and are more nutritious and with the coming collapse of the economy...you should know how to grow your own. Big multinational agribusiness (Archer Daniels Midland, Monsanto, Cargill (twice the size of ADM) and others) has a huge lobbying effort to keep their activities hidden and approved by our POLITICIANS! The huge multinational chemical and fertilizer companies (Agrium, Bunge Limited, CF Industries, Gujarat State Fertilizers and Chemicals Limited, Israel Chemicals, Kemira GrowHow, Kempthorne Prosser, National Fertilisers Limited, Office Chérifien des Phosphates, Petronas Fertilizer Kedah PhosAgro, Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan, Qinghai Salt Lake Potash, Sinofert Holdings, Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile, The Mosaic Company, Yara International) also lobby extensively in Washington and our CongressPeople suck up the attention and money offered by them to keep the Agribusiness out of the public eye and unregulated.
2 :
They found lead (Pb) in the sewage sludge --- but that in and of itself will not put lead in any of the crops grown in it. I do not know of any plant that metabolizes lead (Pb). Is there a botanist out there who knows about lead in green plants. Is this another the sky is falling Environmental FUD alert? Okay, I did find some an article on lead and green onions - I'll need to read it closely.
3 :
I think they found minuscule amounts of sewage sludge in there. However, I do agree with you that they're better off using cow patties for fertilizer. Moreover, I think sewage sludge is better off as "fecal fuel" for electricity



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Posted by Health Food at 7:37 PM