HIDDEN CRISIS: Highly toxic sewage sludge (mislabeled as healthy fertilizer) has been applied to 20% of US farmlands and gardens, massively contaminating US food, soil and groundwater.
"... Instead of dumping sewage far off shore..." what an idiotic statement.
Human sewage should be dealt with where it is produced. It can easily be treated, or heated to produce a "cleaner waste" to be used on rangelands, or better, processed into heat/energy via methane.
Dumping human/CAFO shit into the ocean -already loaded with plastics, nuclear radiation, garbage and other human - created crap, is simply sinful.
It's not just human waste going on to farmlands. In the western (and likely, now, other) states, frackwater is used in conventional ag.
The American sheeple are only now waking up to the multiple crimes occurring in food and eco systems.
Poisons in soils - pesticides (especially the class of neonicotinoids - FAR worse than DDT ever was!) /fungicides/herbicides (news focuses on Glyphosate (RoundUp/Rodeo/Glyphos) - genetically modified insects, bacteria, plants and animals are all things Earth is dealing with. It deals with these things through various adaptations of it's own, but humans are still killing It.
Most Americans are intellectually obese and still think "someone" should do something about stopping it but do not pay attention to what they are doing themselves, as consumers.
The agrochemical/pharmaceutical connections are extraordinary and go back well over a century. It is the parents, grandparents, and current great grand parents today, who grew up without thinking about food impacts - production, environmental impact, corporations, military, politics, etc - who have created the catastrophic food and ecosystems collapse we are seeing currently.
With the exception of a handful of true eco-warriors who have known for decades about the environmental benefits of true organic/natural food production - and benefits for those who consume it - the bulk of America simply needs to be told what to eat, when to eat it, and how much to consume. Following every fad without listening to their own bodies, and especially ignoring impacts on the ecosystems their foods come from.... from farms/ranches/forests/waterways/oceans... Much of the problem today, stems from listening to some ding-dong with a doctorate who's skips around topics every week, or sports/music/political figures whom they "admire".... has become the norm.
Unfortunately, it's not just the soils (genetically engineered plants/bacteria/toxin dumps/sewage-on-the-Earth issues) we must deal with today regarding food. The complete destruction of ozone from decades of nuclear detonations, aerosols from geoengineering -(chemical/metal/biologic agents) which also create artificial cloud layers over the oceans preventing creation of ozone, IoT frequencies/mmWaves (4G/4G LTE/5G) - Space Fence/Space Force fuels, etc, decimating the atmosphere we need to protect our precious soils/plants/animals from UVC radiation.
On a final note, none of this - including toxic waste used in ag - is a "HIDDEN CRISIS".. that title is simply click bait.
Don't be lazy, learn about your food. Stop geoengineering. Stop 5G. Stop supporting the elites.
From the beginning of time non-toxic healthy human waste went on the ground and fertilized it. People are so unhealthy today, using drugs, injected with vaccines, eating foods that don’t belong in the human body…render human waste that is extremely toxic. if people were healthy, it could be used on the fields, where food was grown. In the 1600s, in England, there were ‘Honey Wagons’ that collected human waste in ‘honey pots’. to be taken to the fields to be used as fertilizer.
Thanks Dr. Nass for keeping up on this subject too. When I first heard about this a few years ago, I honestly thought the person was joking. Gotta hand it to them. They've been continuously finding creative ways to poison us for far longer than most of us would have thought. Fluoride, sludge, vaxs, meds, etc, etc.
Convert excess fluoride to sintered (fused) fluorspar and sequester it until needed. Don't put it in the drinking water, and don't even use it as a substitute for xylene! (parachlorobenzotrifluoride)
Meryl, this is a great article on sludge and the great threat that it poses to our farms, our water, our environment and to humanity in general. But what is lacking here is a simple, concise definition of why we demand that our Reps strike this rider/inclusion in the Appropriation Bill. I know you are hard pressed to find time to whittle this down to the nitty gritty and the full story is important to know, but I need a simple and too the point elevator speech to give to the guy or gal at the front desk of my Rep or Senators office. My understanding is that the Sludge industry is making sure no funds will be allocated to research the dangers of sludge to farmlands, water, people, animals. In short, they will not allow any possible changes in the Big Sludge Industry's profits.
Please provide a short, concise definition of why the HELL we don't want sludge being used--unless it is guaranteed to be free of toxic chemicals!!! Thanks, you overworked saint you. :) And, why the HELL we want our farmers and ranchers to be able to make a decent living so that we and they have healthy food to eat and water to drink. You truly are a saint, Meryl, and we all know this.
I'm glad you asked. I wrote drafts for a handout on sludge and one on pesticides today and I will post them now, though they may get a few tweaks later.
Thanks yet again Meryl. Scary but necessary to be aware of. If only we could turn out the lights, cover our ears and pretend that everything was going to be just fine......how I wished that worked. Living in a dream sounds preferable to having to live this nightmare where we're forced to fight for each truth that is uncovered.
Of course we must live in the present and do everything in our power to fight back against corruption. You are a fearless and passionate warrior, fighting the good fight each and every day. Sometimes I fell sorry for the heavy burden we have all placed on your shoulders. Please know that each of us appreciates all of your efforts.
Thank you. God only gives us what we can handle and I am okay with a life in front of the computer. Though I do need some exercise. My job now is trying to find the little levers that will allow us to fix some of the mess we have gotten ourselves into. Fingers crossed!
My money's on you Meryl. I have no doubt that you'll find those levers and help move us forward. Can I assume you're able to make suggestions directly to Secretary Kennedy?
Once again, not a word about the best alternative to putting sewage sludge on the land as a fertilizer - disposing of the toxic soup in a gasifier or pyrolysis. This would produce energy (syngas) as well as charcoal. Why is Meryl or Ms Orlando not talking about this simple solution? None if their so called solutions will work.
Cause we are ignorant about it. But engineers (perhaps like you) can figure that out. In the meantime, lined landfills and hopefully separating the industrial from the family waste streams and using the family wastes, which are much less contaminated.
I know Dr. David Lewis who wrote the book Science for sale. The EPA fired him when he criticized putting sludge on the land as fertilizer. He was suggesting pyrolysis at a conference we both talked at. But gasifiers are also good option.
Sounds like a land grab for farmer's land and our local springs for pennies on the dollar. They will outlaw private citizens growing food.
I would request a 3rd party to validate the testing.
I dont trust these people.
Last year the health dept. closed a local Spring by me claiming PFAS. A group of us met. No one including myself ever got sick from drinking the spring water. One man in his 80s has been drinking the water since he was a child.
The government needs the water for the data centers they want to build.
We really need to get a handle on all of this stuff. We really do. Otherwise, we will *have* to eat Bill Gates' "lab grown" goodies because it will be safer than what is grown naturally.
We will own nothing, eat bugs and lab grown garbage and die early. Or we will own nothing, eat poisonous food grown "naturally", and get sicker than hell and die early.
With all of the so-called "emergencies" the government has declared over the last 30 years (none of which were really an emergency) why hasn't this been declared a *real* emergency?
"... Instead of dumping sewage far off shore..." what an idiotic statement.
Human sewage should be dealt with where it is produced. It can easily be treated, or heated to produce a "cleaner waste" to be used on rangelands, or better, processed into heat/energy via methane.
Dumping human/CAFO shit into the ocean -already loaded with plastics, nuclear radiation, garbage and other human - created crap, is simply sinful.
It's not just human waste going on to farmlands. In the western (and likely, now, other) states, frackwater is used in conventional ag.
The American sheeple are only now waking up to the multiple crimes occurring in food and eco systems.
Poisons in soils - pesticides (especially the class of neonicotinoids - FAR worse than DDT ever was!) /fungicides/herbicides (news focuses on Glyphosate (RoundUp/Rodeo/Glyphos) - genetically modified insects, bacteria, plants and animals are all things Earth is dealing with. It deals with these things through various adaptations of it's own, but humans are still killing It.
Most Americans are intellectually obese and still think "someone" should do something about stopping it but do not pay attention to what they are doing themselves, as consumers.
The agrochemical/pharmaceutical connections are extraordinary and go back well over a century. It is the parents, grandparents, and current great grand parents today, who grew up without thinking about food impacts - production, environmental impact, corporations, military, politics, etc - who have created the catastrophic food and ecosystems collapse we are seeing currently.
With the exception of a handful of true eco-warriors who have known for decades about the environmental benefits of true organic/natural food production - and benefits for those who consume it - the bulk of America simply needs to be told what to eat, when to eat it, and how much to consume. Following every fad without listening to their own bodies, and especially ignoring impacts on the ecosystems their foods come from.... from farms/ranches/forests/waterways/oceans... Much of the problem today, stems from listening to some ding-dong with a doctorate who's skips around topics every week, or sports/music/political figures whom they "admire".... has become the norm.
Unfortunately, it's not just the soils (genetically engineered plants/bacteria/toxin dumps/sewage-on-the-Earth issues) we must deal with today regarding food. The complete destruction of ozone from decades of nuclear detonations, aerosols from geoengineering -(chemical/metal/biologic agents) which also create artificial cloud layers over the oceans preventing creation of ozone, IoT frequencies/mmWaves (4G/4G LTE/5G) - Space Fence/Space Force fuels, etc, decimating the atmosphere we need to protect our precious soils/plants/animals from UVC radiation.
On a final note, none of this - including toxic waste used in ag - is a "HIDDEN CRISIS".. that title is simply click bait.
Don't be lazy, learn about your food. Stop geoengineering. Stop 5G. Stop supporting the elites.
Bon Appetite.
From the beginning of time non-toxic healthy human waste went on the ground and fertilized it. People are so unhealthy today, using drugs, injected with vaccines, eating foods that don’t belong in the human body…render human waste that is extremely toxic. if people were healthy, it could be used on the fields, where food was grown. In the 1600s, in England, there were ‘Honey Wagons’ that collected human waste in ‘honey pots’. to be taken to the fields to be used as fertilizer.
Humans only excrete PFAS if they consume PFAS.
Quit putting persistent toxicants in the sewer system!
You did miss it.
Thanks Dr. Nass for keeping up on this subject too. When I first heard about this a few years ago, I honestly thought the person was joking. Gotta hand it to them. They've been continuously finding creative ways to poison us for far longer than most of us would have thought. Fluoride, sludge, vaxs, meds, etc, etc.
Make a fortune all while killing us off.
Great businessmen aren't they?
Convert excess fluoride to sintered (fused) fluorspar and sequester it until needed. Don't put it in the drinking water, and don't even use it as a substitute for xylene! (parachlorobenzotrifluoride)
Meryl, this is a great article on sludge and the great threat that it poses to our farms, our water, our environment and to humanity in general. But what is lacking here is a simple, concise definition of why we demand that our Reps strike this rider/inclusion in the Appropriation Bill. I know you are hard pressed to find time to whittle this down to the nitty gritty and the full story is important to know, but I need a simple and too the point elevator speech to give to the guy or gal at the front desk of my Rep or Senators office. My understanding is that the Sludge industry is making sure no funds will be allocated to research the dangers of sludge to farmlands, water, people, animals. In short, they will not allow any possible changes in the Big Sludge Industry's profits.
Please provide a short, concise definition of why the HELL we don't want sludge being used--unless it is guaranteed to be free of toxic chemicals!!! Thanks, you overworked saint you. :) And, why the HELL we want our farmers and ranchers to be able to make a decent living so that we and they have healthy food to eat and water to drink. You truly are a saint, Meryl, and we all know this.
I'm glad you asked. I wrote drafts for a handout on sludge and one on pesticides today and I will post them now, though they may get a few tweaks later.
Thanks yet again Meryl. Scary but necessary to be aware of. If only we could turn out the lights, cover our ears and pretend that everything was going to be just fine......how I wished that worked. Living in a dream sounds preferable to having to live this nightmare where we're forced to fight for each truth that is uncovered.
Of course we must live in the present and do everything in our power to fight back against corruption. You are a fearless and passionate warrior, fighting the good fight each and every day. Sometimes I fell sorry for the heavy burden we have all placed on your shoulders. Please know that each of us appreciates all of your efforts.
Thank you. God only gives us what we can handle and I am okay with a life in front of the computer. Though I do need some exercise. My job now is trying to find the little levers that will allow us to fix some of the mess we have gotten ourselves into. Fingers crossed!
My money's on you Meryl. I have no doubt that you'll find those levers and help move us forward. Can I assume you're able to make suggestions directly to Secretary Kennedy?
Once again, not a word about the best alternative to putting sewage sludge on the land as a fertilizer - disposing of the toxic soup in a gasifier or pyrolysis. This would produce energy (syngas) as well as charcoal. Why is Meryl or Ms Orlando not talking about this simple solution? None if their so called solutions will work.
Cause we are ignorant about it. But engineers (perhaps like you) can figure that out. In the meantime, lined landfills and hopefully separating the industrial from the family waste streams and using the family wastes, which are much less contaminated.
Do you have a reference?
1) Science for sale book, author Dr. David Lewis, he was fired by the EPA for criticizing spreading sewage sludge on the land,
2) Dr.James Lyons-Weiler did an interview with Dr. Lewis few years ago,
3) https://task33.ieabioenergy.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/33/2022/07/Status-presentation-Europe-USA.pdf
4) https://task33.ieabioenergy.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/33/2022/07/Status-presentation-Europe-USA.pdf
5) https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9310861/pdf/WER-94-0.pdf
6)https://ijooes.fe.up.pt/article/view/2184-0954_002.002_0006
7)https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6923263/#:~:text=The%20gasification%20process%20is%20the,commonly%20used%20as%20a%20fuel.
8)https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/17/17/4476
9)https://www.thembrsite.com/sludge-treatment-gasification#:~:text=Created%2006%20March%202025,C%2C%20the%20sludge%20is%20dried.
10)https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35298843/
11) my email is ttres@me.com in case you need more info, thanks tom
No idea, it’s been around for years,
I’d love to, but I don’t have their phone number. I hope that RFK knows about it and can do something. Dr. Nass surely has better contacts than I do.
I know Dr. David Lewis who wrote the book Science for sale. The EPA fired him when he criticized putting sludge on the land as fertilizer. He was suggesting pyrolysis at a conference we both talked at. But gasifiers are also good option.
They are manufacturing a famine.
Exactly!!! I’ve been saying this for a few years, and that’s exactly what I thought when reading this post. Just horrific.
In the UK, especially the flatlands, in the 21st century, you don't drink 'raw' water...
They are manufacturing a FAMINE.
You could drink spring water!
Spring water comes from supermarkets...and I wouldn't trust it.either...
You can go to the springs yourself!
Sounds like a land grab for farmer's land and our local springs for pennies on the dollar. They will outlaw private citizens growing food.
I would request a 3rd party to validate the testing.
I dont trust these people.
Last year the health dept. closed a local Spring by me claiming PFAS. A group of us met. No one including myself ever got sick from drinking the spring water. One man in his 80s has been drinking the water since he was a child.
The government needs the water for the data centers they want to build.
It does not poison immediately. The cancer, fertility problems, and whathaveyou come later. And you can't pin them on anything in paRTICULAR
We tested the spring water and compared it with the local tap water from the faucet.
The spring water was cleaner and within the legal limits.
In my opinion only, a neutral third party must be brought in to validate the test used and the results.
Thank you for keeping us informed. I greatly appreciate it.
The links to sierra club don't work, tho they do lead for a request for donations. However the EPA report link does work.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210530235420/https://www.sierraclub.org/sludge-garden-toxic-pfas-home-fertilizers-made-sewage-sludge
Foreign Terrorists could never damage the health and food security of America on the grand scale achieved by American politicians and American corporations. https://healthythinking.substack.com/p/foreign-terrorists-would-be-jealous
https://pursuing.com/insights/pfas-contamination-and-your-legal-rights-what-you-need-to-know/
Anyone familiar with Unshadowed Substack? (also known as IceAge Farmer?) He posted a very interesting article that is related to this post of Meryl's.
https://substack.com/@unshadowed/p-171799188
https://pickax.com/post/87708
We really need to get a handle on all of this stuff. We really do. Otherwise, we will *have* to eat Bill Gates' "lab grown" goodies because it will be safer than what is grown naturally.
We will own nothing, eat bugs and lab grown garbage and die early. Or we will own nothing, eat poisonous food grown "naturally", and get sicker than hell and die early.
With all of the so-called "emergencies" the government has declared over the last 30 years (none of which were really an emergency) why hasn't this been declared a *real* emergency?
The Sierra Club link isn’t working anymore, of course. I’d love to know the brand of fertilizer that wasn’t contaminated.
Doesn't that sewage sludge emanate from the Potomac River?