According to the Dairy Reporter, the country’s largest raw milk dairy, California-based Organic Pastures Dairy, has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) “alleging that the agency repeatedly failed to respond to its petition to amend a law that forbids the sale of raw milk-based dairy products across state lines.”
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According to a local publication in Hinsdale, Illinois, the Chicago metropolitan area has opted to replace a soccer field’s soil with “biosolids” — dried sewage sludge — in several batches and re-sod. Apparently two other local soccer fields have also been sludged. Why? It’s cheaper than “good, new black dirt.”
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Don’t fancy the thought of your spinach and carrots being grown in sewage sludge?
Neither does Mario Ciasulli, a semi-retired electrical engineer living in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Mario likes to cook, and enjoys good food. When he found out last year about the practice of spreading dried and heated human and industrial waste as “fertilizer” on food crops, he was upset. (more…)
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