If you think the recent salmonella outbreaks in the food industry are an accident think again. The application of sludge on farm land and food sources is only going to make epidemic illnesses more common. Be careful of what you eat, because you don't know what was used to grow it.
In other breaking news the Town of Halifax has put in place a "Chemical Trespass Ordinance"
The fight in Campball County is not over! We will continue to battle against sludge and the people that want to poison our communities, families and evnironment! We must have community support! Help us protect you!
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Sewage Sludge is defined in the Harper Collins Dictionary of Environmental Science as a “viscous semi-solid mixture of bacteria and virus laden organic matter, toxic metals. Sound like FERTILIZER to you?
Sludge is actually the solids that remain after wastewater treatment. This material is separated from the cleaned water, treated and composted into fertilizer. Another word for sludge is sewage
Why is it being spread on cropland? Because disposing of it can be costly. Companies that manage raw sewage have come up with a nifty way of taking care of it. GIVE IT AWAY!
They give it to farmers so that it can be spread on crop land and pastures. Free fertilizer! Of course what the sludge companies don't tell the farmers is that the sludge is laced with heavy metals, chemicals, carcinogens and other nasty things that find their way into the crops, or meat of the animals that graze on the fields.
We've all heard the horror stories about improperly handled foodstuffs and how they can cause illness and death. Imagine if the problems with your food weren't on the outside! Imagine food grown with the contaniments on the inside. Crops grown in human sewage! That's not a pretty image is it? How about beef cattle and chickens fed crops grown on sewage? Or cattle and sheep pastured on sludge spread land? You are what you eat, and so are the animals.
- Email C.A.T.S.
- Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund
- Shopping for Sludge; What's in your food?
- Links to cases, scientific data and other items of interest
- We the People, the Declaration of Citizens Against Toxic Sludge
- Virginia Biosolids; The Truth will Surprise You!
- When Democracy Roars
- Editorials and Letters about Sludge
- Contact your legislators
- NIOSH Warnings about sludge risks for workers
- Photos of Bedford Sludge Storage Site
- Email to join Bedford Sludge Opponents
- List of parcels by number
- List of parcels with sludge application permits
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