We've been made suckers of.
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seattletimes.nwsource.com/news/special/fear_fields.html
... industrial wastes laden with heavy metals and other dangerous materials are being used in fertilizers and spread over farmland. The process, which is legal, saves dirty industries the high costs of disposing of hazardous wastes...
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For all my extensive reading over the years in biology, agriculture, and technology, it has taken me till now to see that corruption of some in the business world is much greater than I had imagined. I swallowed the rationale about the use of recycled industrial materials for fertilizer that the mineral such as calcium content of the materials made them best disposed of as fertilizer. As with so much industry greenwashing hype, the word "recycling" has been perverted. Toxics were allowed to be called fertilizer if they contained some lime or trace mineral such as zinc. It reminds me of how appalled I was thirty some years ago to find that cereal and bread makers - after refining out trace nutrients such as iron - were "supplementing" with iron sulfate, a form which does damage to the stomach, because it was the cheapest form of iron to use. You might as well be eating rust. Reading Fateful Harvest, I am inclined to think that the reason my garden suddenly failed about 4 years ago is that I had used a trace mineral "natural" fertilizer. It further confirms that organic is the way to go. And it reminds me that there are SOME doing good in government, like the former PA truck driver who - upon realizing that his job (midnight dumping) was mass murder by destroying an area watershed - let himself be wired to bust some waste management gangsters and who later became a PA environmental official.
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Fateful Harvest:
The True Story of a Small Town, a Global Industry, and a Toxic Secret
by Duff Wilson
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fateful_Harvest
safefoodandfertilizer.org
The small town in question was Quincy, Washington...investigation into the recycling of fly ash, tire ash, flue dust, tailings, phosphoric acid from car factories, baghouse dust from recycling plants, zinc skimmings from galvanizing industries, and assorted other industrial byproducts with heavy metals such as arsenic, beryllium, cadmium, lead, titanium and other chemicals into plant fertilizer based on the agronomic benefits of their alkalinity (sold as lime) or their micronutrients zinc and manganese. Part of the reasoning behind this is that plants growing in alkaline soils do not uptake the metals as easily...
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seattletimes.nwsource.com/news/special/fear_fields.html
... industrial wastes laden with heavy metals and other dangerous materials are being used in fertilizers and spread over farmland. The process, which is legal, saves dirty industries the high costs of disposing of hazardous wastes...
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For all my extensive reading over the years in biology, agriculture, and technology, it has taken me till now to see that corruption of some in the business world is much greater than I had imagined. I swallowed the rationale about the use of recycled industrial materials for fertilizer that the mineral such as calcium content of the materials made them best disposed of as fertilizer. As with so much industry greenwashing hype, the word "recycling" has been perverted. Toxics were allowed to be called fertilizer if they contained some lime or trace mineral such as zinc. It reminds me of how appalled I was thirty some years ago to find that cereal and bread makers - after refining out trace nutrients such as iron - were "supplementing" with iron sulfate, a form which does damage to the stomach, because it was the cheapest form of iron to use. You might as well be eating rust. Reading Fateful Harvest, I am inclined to think that the reason my garden suddenly failed about 4 years ago is that I had used a trace mineral "natural" fertilizer. It further confirms that organic is the way to go. And it reminds me that there are SOME doing good in government, like the former PA truck driver who - upon realizing that his job (midnight dumping) was mass murder by destroying an area watershed - let himself be wired to bust some waste management gangsters and who later became a PA environmental official.
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Fateful Harvest:
The True Story of a Small Town, a Global Industry, and a Toxic Secret
by Duff Wilson
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fateful_Harvest
safefoodandfertilizer.org
The small town in question was Quincy, Washington...investigation into the recycling of fly ash, tire ash, flue dust, tailings, phosphoric acid from car factories, baghouse dust from recycling plants, zinc skimmings from galvanizing industries, and assorted other industrial byproducts with heavy metals such as arsenic, beryllium, cadmium, lead, titanium and other chemicals into plant fertilizer based on the agronomic benefits of their alkalinity (sold as lime) or their micronutrients zinc and manganese. Part of the reasoning behind this is that plants growing in alkaline soils do not uptake the metals as easily...
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