Stop Toxic Sludge Dumping on Farmland and Pastures!

[Guest guest]

Toxic sewage sludge used to be dumped into the oceans, killing fish and marine

life. After public pressure put an end to ocean-dumping, toxic sludge began to

be spread on farmland, touted as natural " fertilizer. " In 1998 the sludge

industry tried to get the USDA to allow toxic sewage sludge to be used as a

fertilizer on organic farms, but the OCA's Save Organic Standards campaign and

an aroused organic community stopped this insidious effort. Today millions of

pounds of sludge are dumped on Monsanto's crops, including cotton, corn, and soy

grown for animal feed and fuel. This toxic sludge is, by law, allowed to contain

dangerous levels of pathogens, viruses and bacteria. The sludge pathogens that

survive sewage " treatment " are the hardiest superbugs, bacteria that have

developed a resistance to antimicrobials and antibiotics.

Toxic sludge used on food crops must be processed to reduce pathogen

contamination, but is still rife with heavy metals and all manner of industrial

chemicals from flame retardants to metal plating compounds.

If it isn't safe to dump in the oceans, it isn't safe to spread on farmland and

pasture land!

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