Posted on January 21, 2009 by mjolsen
You can live without a lot of things, but you can’t live without food and water. Whoever controls them controls you.
In the last few years there has been a dramatic increase in the concentration of ownership of our food and water into just a few giant international corporations.
According to Judith McGeary in Countryside Magazine, “A [...]
Filed under: garden | Tagged: agricultural subsidies, Archer Daniels Midland, Cargill, Coca-Cola, Del Monte, diabetes, food, heart disease, high fructose corn syrup, junk food, Nestle, nutrition, Phillip Morris-Kraft, privatizing, RAFI, strokes, Tyson, water | 2 Comments »
Posted on July 6, 2008 by mjolsen
The Harper Collins Dictionary of Environmental Science defines sewage sludge as a “viscous, semi-solid mixture of bacteria and virus-laden organic matter, toxic metals, synthetic organic chemicals, and settled solids removed from domestic and industrial waste water at a sewage treatment plant”. Yum!
Typically it contains:
PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls)
Chlorinated pesticides — DDT, dieldrin, aldrin, endrin, chlordane, heptachlor, lindane, [...]
Filed under: garden | Tagged: biosolids, dead zones, E.P.A., fertilizer, food-borne illness, public relations, sewage sludge, toxic, wastewater treatment | 3 Comments »
