Guest guest Posted January 5, 2004 Report Share Posted January 5, 2004 Patty, that is ridicoulous! How outrageous. What is wrong with this country. Obviously the almighty dollar is worth more that human lives. We should be told this info as we are buying their products, and deserve to know "what we are getting" Like you ,Patty, I try to but mostly organic but I eat so much (probably 2-3 pounds of veggies and fruits per day) and my son Tyler eats about 6 servings, that it is so expensive for me to buy all organic. So I buy the "safer" ones, and all else like the dangerous ones are organic (blueberries, strawberries, cherry tomato's, anything without a protective skin like banana's) Well, you sold me with your info alone....Thanks alot. I am curently on the "Restoration Plan" all about toxic weight, and eliminating toxins in order to lose weight and get well. I'll let you know! Love Thanks alot. >From: "Dave & Patty" >Reply- >>Subject: Toxic fertilizer! >Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 20:53:00 -0800 > >Hi Group, >I read the most outrageous book this weekend that I have read in a long time. It made me so outraged, I still can't believe this is happening in America. But it is. The book is called "Fateful Harvest" and it describes how industries in this country, instead of paying the huge fees associated with dumping their hazardous waste, are in fact selling those hazardous wastes as an ingredient in fertilizer products sold to farmers. Farmers unknowingly are spreading toxic waste, such as lead, cadmium, arsenic, beryllium and God knows what else on their lands believing they are fertilizing their land. Plants take up these toxic metals! If ever there was a reason for me to buy organic produce, this is it. I am just flabbergasted and can't believe this really happens. > >Check it out for yourselves. I have no doubt you will be as outraged as I am. I don't know if this is a current problem...the book has a copyright date of 2001, and the wheels of change roll slowly. I hope someone has been able to stop this insanity! >http://www.crcwater.org/issues/fertwaste7497.html > >http://www.becnet.org/Bylines/Fertilizer.html > >http://www.ewg.org/pub/home/reports/factoryfarming/fertpress.html > >Toxic Wastes 'Recycled' as Fertilizer >Threaten U.S. Farms and Food Supply > >Dioxin, Lead, Mercury Spread on Crops >As States Scramble to Protect Public Health >Executive Summary, Factory Farming >Download Factory Farming (335K) > >March 26, 1998 > > >[Washington, D.C.] -- Under the guise of 'recycling,' millions of pounds of toxic waste are shipped each year from polluting industries to fertilizer manufacturers and farmers, who used toxic waste laden with dioxin, lead, mercury and other hazardous chemicals as raw material for fertilizers applied to U.S. farmland. > >According to an analysis of federal and state data released today by the Environmental Working Group (EWG), between 1990 and 1995 more than 450 fertilizer companies or farms in 38 states received shipments of toxic waste totaling more than 270 million pounds. > >EWG's report, Factory Farming: Toxic Waste and Fertilizer in the United States, lists, for each state, the polluting industries that shipped the most such waste and the fertilizer companies that received the most. Companies in California received the most waste, followed by Nebraska, New Jersey, Washington, and Georgia. > >"Not only does the EPA allow these chemicals to be used in the fertilizers that go on our crops, in most states farmers and consumers don't even have the right to know what's being used," said study author, Wiles. > >Because of loopholes in the federal toxics laws -- most notably, the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) -- EWG found that it is impossible to account for all uses of the toxic waste shipped to fertilizer companies. "This is a regulatory system designed by Mr. Magoo," said Ken Cook, president of the Washington D.C.-based Environmental Working Group. Some facilities that received the waste only make fertilizer, but others produce a variety of inorganic chemicals. > >However, in a series of investigative articles, The Seattle Times has documented the nationwide use of cadmium, lead, arsenic, dioxins, radionuclides and other hazardous waste in fertilizer. Tests by the State of Washington found that some fertilizers contained very high levels of dioxin -- 100 times higher, in fact than the level allowed for treated Superfund sites in the state. > >In response to The Seattle Times investigation, states are scrambling to plug regulatory loopholes. Washington, California, Idaho, New Jersey, North Dakota, land, Oklahoma, Oregon and Texas have laws or regulations in the works to limit toxic waste in fertilizer. Most of the proposals would still not provide consumers with as much information or put the burden on fertilizer companies to prove that their products are safe. > >"Anyone who uses fertilizer has the right to know what is in it, and whether it was made from toxic waste," added Ken Cook, "But beyond this basic public right to know, state and federal health officials must protect farms, farm families and our food supply from toxic chemical contamination." > >Factory Farming: Toxic Waste and Fertilizer in the United States, 1990-1995 is available on the Internet at www.ewg.org. > >Environmental Working Group, a project of the Tides Center, is a nonprofit research organization with offices in Washington, DC and San Francisco. > > > > Working moms: Find helpful tips here on managing kids, home, work — and yourself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 10, 2004 Report Share Posted January 10, 2004 , What is the "Restoration Plan"? Is this a special diet or something? Patty ----- Original Message ----- From: JOSEPH PALANCA Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 7:45 AM Subject: RE: Toxic fertilizer! Patty, that is ridicoulous! How outrageous. What is wrong with this country. Obviously the almighty dollar is worth more that human lives. We should be told this info as we are buying their products, and deserve to know "what we are getting" Like you ,Patty, I try to but mostly organic but I eat so much (probably 2-3 pounds of veggies and fruits per day) and my son Tyler eats about 6 servings, that it is so expensive for me to buy all organic. So I buy the "safer" ones, and all else like the dangerous ones are organic (blueberries, strawberries, cherry tomato's, anything without a protective skin like banana's) Well, you sold me with your info alone....Thanks alot. I am curently on the "Restoration Plan" all about toxic weight, and eliminating toxins in order to lose weight and get well. I'll let you know! Love Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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