Submitted by Hardscrabble Farmer
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An environmental group says 20 million acres of farmland in the U.S. may be tainted by dangerous chemicals in sewage sludge used as fertilizer.
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I started a bigger garden this year, I’m thinking it should have been bigger…..now to start canning the venison.
GMO corn feed venison during deer season in Texas. I’m sure their is no “taint” in the meat.
It cans beautifully and tastes wonderful. 75 minutes at 12-15 psi.
How does one fix that?
It’s called the way it is and if we had none of this there would be no jobs. Trade offs suck sometimes. What can I say?
Think about the painter. While paint has gone through many alterations in order to make it “safe”, where does the waste go for manufacturing paint and paint products, moisture barriers applied to decks, privacy fences etc. If none of this stuff was available the painter would have nothing to paint. However, it boggles my mind where all the industrial waste goes. Think Baton Rogue , LA, chemical plants there and elsewhere. Again, it’s called jobs.
I saw a canadian documentary about this problem years ago. In one scene they show them spraying the sludge on a farmers field, then they go look at what was left behind. Plastic tampax parts, used baby wipes, and all manner of unprocessable non biodegradable garbage. Disgusting.
I had to go see… yes, indeed. Missouri croplands are full of sludge chemicals too on top of all the Roundup residue.
https://usludgefree.org/information/farm-risks
Here are the regulations for Missouri regarding sludge use, but quite honestly? The farming industry will do what it has done since the FDA (and CongressCritters) got in bed with Monsanto.
https://extension.missouri.edu/publications/eq421
It should be banned. It can not be made safe.
“Missouri croplands are full of sludge chemicals too on top of all the Roundup residue.”
Sounds delightfully appetizing.
Recalling older days of disagreeing with various political experts in political forums, it seemed any mention of chemicals in food, the impacts of herbicides on bees, any sort of questioning man made chemicals that produced wealth for some folks could be harmful to humans, commercial fruits and vegetables sprayed with all sorts of non organic chemicals necessary to prevent insects from destroying crops, all safe and all considered nonsense and one must be a “tree hugger” to suggest such things. It’s interesting those that touted themselves as conservative GOPers were the first to denounce any talk of such things.
I find those that are in the extermination business around here being GOPers themselves will argue that corporations do thorough testing of any chemical product before releasing it to the public or for licensed exterminator use and completely safe, no harm to humans etc. etc. etc. One exterminator told me his wife is a chemist so he knows.
I’m not a “tree hugger”, only one that questions.
I never understood at what point humans decided to reuse sewage waste for drinking water and fertilizer. I refuse to drink any city water because most of it is “recycled waste water”. My water comes from springs in the ground and my fertilizer comes from compost I make, so perhaps that is why it doesn’t make sense to me.
Not to worry.
Mother nature takes out the trash every now and then.
She is tired of mankind shitting in her yard.
“mother nature will try to get rid of us”…..Kurt Vonnegut
Not ‘mother nature’. However…
Revelation 21
King James Version
21 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
worth a read.
https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Revelation-21-1/
What isn’t tainted by chemicals?
I’m assuming the reverse osmosis water I drink is not, hope I’m right.
What do you think your reverse osmosis membrane is made of.
I am going to hope for something nice, because I am about to install one this week.
Oh, “environmental groups”? Not allowed in the vocabulary of we GOPers. Just saying.
Watch out for the “hothouse” / indoor crops as well.