Organic Consumer Alert: Toxic Sewage Sludge

#211, February 4, 2010
Health, Justice and Sustainability News from the Organic Consumers Association
http://www.organicconsumers.org/

Edited by Alexis Baden-Mayer and Ronnie Cummins

The People Who Want You to Believe Toxic Sludge Is Good for You

OCA staff members went undercover to a meeting of San Francisco Public Utilities Commission employees and the toxic sludge industry last week. We figured, in such a green city, that SFPUC employees would keep an arms length distance from for-profit sludge companies like Synagro that make their money dumping city sludge on rural lands.

However, SFPUC, Synagro and CASA, the state lobbying group for all of California's city sewer commissions, are mounting a coordinated effort to salvage the business-as-usual practice of flushing household and industrial waste away with clean water and then contaminating farmland with toxic sludge leftover when the water is removed. They see San Francisco's sludge giveaway program as an essential component of their national campaign to build public acceptance for the disposal of toxic sewage sludge on yards, gardens and farms. They will fight any effort to shut the program down, and specifically named OCA allies the Center for Food Safety and RILES, who filed a legal petition with the San Francisco to stop the sludge giveaway, as enemies of their campaign.

The scary thing is, this public-private trifecta is well-resourced and unscrupulous. The Synagro rep boasted of earning the support of a local university for a toxic sludge project by promising a $25,000 yearly donation. The CASA rep talked about using "congressional funny money" to fund studies that would provide science that backed-up the industry. And, the SFPUC rep, the public employee, stood by them smiling and nodding as they applauded her for not backing down in the face of public opposition to the contamination of San Francisco's green space with toxic sludge.

Read more about toxic sewage here: http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_20156.cfm

Take Action:

http://capwiz.com/grassrootsnetroots/issues/alert/?alertid=14646196

Toxic Sludge makes people sick

The following is excerpted from first-person accounts posted to Sludge News:
http://www.sludgenews.org/action/story.aspx?id=87

"Our government says it’s safe, my body says its not. The sludge trucks are coming now in 2009. Class B sludge, no less. After moving into my new home in 2008, having no idea that sludge is surrounding my home. To the northwest of my home 1/2 mile farmer gets sludge in some kind of holding tanks that stinks like something truly UNGODLY in the winter months when its, freezing outside, so you can imagine the summers here. To the east, less than a 1/4 mile from my home, 2 other big fields get sludged in summer months. BUT next to my home, 1240 TONS of CLASS B SLUDGE, that’s approx 54 tractor trailers started dumping on 8/4/2008.

So now I'm getting ready for the nosebleeds to start, the headaches are starting, I'm hoping I don't get paralysis and chest pains like last year. You can talk to anyone in government and it's not in their back yard, so they don't care. And most pass the buck...and say they have no control. Or its the law...well, laws are changed everyday in this country...I am really disgusted with the lack of ethics and political will of our so called leaders. No wonder some mid easterners refer to USA as infidels, we just spread our shit all over the planet."

Upload Your Testimony / Share Your Story

Do you have a sludge story you would like to tell the Senate committee investigating the practice of disposing of sewage sludge on farmland and on gardens? Upload your testimony and share your sludge story using the form below. It will be delivered to the EPW Committee in Washington, DC. Please note this will be a public document.

Here is the link for your testimony: http://www.sludgenews.org/action/

Pilot program provides shots to kids in Denver schools - The Denver Post

Subject: This is the end of the end. It has started Public Schools as health clinics (vaccine push)

From: Eileen Dannemann
Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 10:14 PM

This is in the Healthcare bill and as you see with the government, sometimes bills (like Obama’s Wired for Healthcare) just needs to be articulated. You don't even have to pass it and the roll out begins.

The Healthcare bill: It grants money to buy property, build buildings and take private money to match grant money...guess who that would be?

These PSHC (Public School Health Clinics) as named in the bill will be very set in stone...every school will have them...every child will get vaccinated...they may try to take away exemptions at some point which would then negate their problem of obtaining parental consent. If you don't vaccinate...with out exemptions...you have a choice...school or no school for you kids.

HPV now for boys, too. Flu shots twice a year with high levels of Thimerosal from 6 mos. through 19. All perfectly recorded using the pubic schools as the data collecting and vaccine distribution system. They are going for adults too and pets.

There seems to be a push to totally bypass what the State of Colorado has determined should be required for school. These kids are getting shots not required for school including HPV which was overwhelmingly rejected by the states in 2007

If this works in Denver, it will be spread.

Regards,

Eileen Dannemann
Standing director, National Coalition of Organized Women (NCOW)
www.ProgressiveConvergence.com
917 804-0786

US court rules against Monsanto's GMO sugarbeets, says USDA failed to evaluate the risks

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2236459020090922
Tue Sep 22, 2009 5:45pm EDT

* The court orders environmental impact report
* Critics say GMO sugarbeets promote "superweeds" (Recasts, updates with details from court decision, comments)

By Carey Gillam

KANSAS CITY, Sept 22 (Reuters) - A federal U.S. court has ruled in favor of critics of Monsanto (MON.N) Co's genetically engineered sugar beets, saying the U.S. government failed to adequately evaluate environmental and economic risks associated with the crop.

The U.S. District Court for the northern district of California ruled that the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) violated federal law by failing to prepare an environmental impact statement before deregulating genetically altered sugar beets.

Monsanto developed the biotech beets to be resistant to Monsanto's glyphosate herbicide Roundup, and promotes the sugarbeets as "Roundup Ready."
The plaintiffs include the Center for Food Safety, Organic Seed Alliance, Sierra Club, and High Mowing Seeds. The groups filed the lawsuit in January 2008.
About 1.1 million U.S. acres were seeded this year to Roundup Ready sugar beets in the fourth year of commercialized production.

Critics say the Roundup Ready beets are dangerous for the environment because they promote the emergence of "superweeds" or weeds that cannot easily be killed because they also develop a tolerance to weedkiller. They also say that organic and conventional beet farmers are damaged because the genetically altered sugar beets are wind-pollinated and inevitably cross-pollinate related crops grown nearby.
The court found that USDA gave only "cursory" consideration to some of these concerns, failing to adequately consider the risks. The court has ordered the USDA to conduct a rigorous assessment of the environmental and economic impacts of the crop on farmers and the environment, and will evaluate other remedies in an October meeting of the parties.

In response to the court ruling, Monsanto defended its product. "The decision was based on procedure and had nothing to do with questioning the safety or efficacy of Roundup Ready sugar beets," said Monsanto spokesman Garrett Kasper.

But one of the attorneys representing the consumer and farmer groups who filed the lawsuit said the ruling spoke to the danger of the biotech crop. "Monsanto is trying to sweep this under the rug," said Paul Achitoff, a lawyer for the law firm Earthjustice. "The procedure they neglected to follow was to evaluate the impact of the product. The court found they needed to look at the environmental impacts of growing Monsanto's product and they haven't done it." (Reporting by Carey Gillam; Editing by David Gregorio)

Do not use Zicam nasal gel for sinus problems and colds – it injures the Olfactory nerve

“I want my friends to know what has happened to me in hopes that it will never happen to you or anybody you care about. About 10 days ago, I felt a cold coming on; so before I went to bed I used Zicam Cold Remedy Nasal Gel. It's supposed to help you "get over your cold faster." Immediately after I sprayed it into each nostril I felt the most horrific burning sensation imaginable. It literally felt like I had sprayed pepper spray directly into my brain. It burned all the way to the top of my skull. My nasal passages swelled, my eyes watered - the burning lasted all night long into the next day.

After about a day, I realized I couldn't taste anything and I thought, "Wow - I must really have a bad cold." Then I noticed that I couldn't smell coffee brewing, couldn't smell my perfume when I put it on, couldn't smell the popcorn I burned, couldn't smell my favorite candle. I panicked and starting smelling everything that I could find that had really strong odors - ammonia, finger nail polish remover, bleach, etc. I couldn't smell ANYTHING! I started tasting everything that had really strong tastes such as HOT salsa, raw red onions, Doritos, coffee. I couldn't taste ANYTHING!

I went online, typed in "Zicam side effects" and up popped all sorts of web sites with people reporting the same thing I experienced. It seems that this past June, Zicam pulled the swabs for adults and children off the shelf but not the nasal gel.

My doctor said the Zicam had basically "FRIED" my Olfactory nerve and the results are most likely permanent. He said he had read about the side effects of Zicam and couldn't believe it is still on the shelf. It isn't FDA approved.”

Check it out on the link below.

http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm167065.htm

Matrixx issued an update in January 2007 in which it reasserted the safety of its Zicam products. The company, Matrixx continues to believe that Zicam Cold Remedy intranasal gel does not cause loss of smell and that claims to the contrary are scientifically unfounded and misleading.

Because Zicam is labeled as a homeopathic remedy and is based on a naturally occurring mineral (zinc) that is generally recognized as safe, the product has not been regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA. Medical reports going as far back as 1938 have noted that high doses of zinc can harm the tissues involved in smelling, but whether Zicam users experience a higher-than-normal incidence of anosmia remains a subject of debate.

There are safe remedies for sinus problems such as Thera-zyme Nsl for a stuffy nose, Citricidal Nasal Spray as well as the inexpensive Neti Pot. I recommend Thera-zyme Opt for a runny nose. Both Opt and Nsl are food-based vitamin C formulas with enzymes and are available online.

H1N1 Vaccine Liquidation Sale: Hurry while supplies last!

by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor NaturalNews.com printable article
Orgininal article published December 18 2009

http://www.naturalnews.com/027766_H1N1_vaccines_swine_flu.html

All of a sudden, H1N1 vaccines are available all across America. Pharmacies are pushing the vaccines as if there were an "everything must go" liquidation sale under way. Hurry, get your swine flu vaccine today before everybody figures out they're useless! Vaccines are only in demand during the fear phase of a pandemic, and that fear phase has long since faded for H1N1. Virtually everyone who wants an H1N1 vaccine has already received one, and the rest of the population is beginning to notice something quite curious: People who got the vaccine are no better off than those who skipped it. In fact, there's no difference in mortality between those who were vaccinated and those who weren't, indicating yet again that the swine flu vaccine was a medical hoax to begin with.

In fact, the greatest determining factor in the health outcomes of children has most likely been their blood levels of vitamin D. But that isn't tracked by most medical professionals. So we'll probably never know the exact correlation between vitamin D and H1N1 prevention.

Millions of useless vaccines

So what we're going to end up with here is a huge stockpile of H1N1 vaccines that nobody wants. Sure, the pharmacies, clinics and hospitals will try to push as many of them as they can, but in the end, they're inevitably going to be sitting on millions of extra doses of vaccine with nowhere to inject them.What will be done with this huge stockpile? Flushing H1N1 vaccines down the drain is exactly what will eventually be done with millions of unsold doses. Because that's how hospitals, pharmacies and even drug makers get rid of excess pharmaceuticals.
Polluting the environment with H1N1 vaccines

Should we be concerned about this? What's the effect of dumping millions of doses of H1N1 DNA / RNA into the public sewer system? No one really knows.

It's a startling fact that the sewage expelled by one city ends up in the public drinking water of the next city downstream. Sewage is treated, of course, to achieve EPA-regulated "safe" status before it's dumped back into the rivers, but the EPA doesn't regulate something called "DNA pollution." DNA and RNA can be dumped into the sewage systems in virtually unlimited quantities, without any regulatory oversight (the FDA doesn't regulate drug disposal either).
No EPA regulations

There are no EPA regulations that limit the dumping of vaccines directly into the public sewage system, by the way. Dumping excess pharmaceuticals down the drain is routine in modern medicine. Hospitals, clinics, pharmacies and patients routinely flush pharmaceuticals down the drain. This is why you can now find HRT drugs, antidepressants and blood pressure drugs in the fish near any major U.S. city.So many drugs are now dumped into the sewers that rivers have become Big Pharma runoff zones that poison the fish and destroy aquatic life. No wonder the world's oceans are dying -- they're all being bathed in Big Pharma's chemical waste!

But that's not the end of this story: In places all across America, sewage waste is used to make fertilizer that's spread on crops. The solid sewage waste is called "biosolids" or "black gold," and it's used by farmers and gardeners as a soil additive. What the people using this toxic sludge don't realize is that it's contaminated with Big Pharma's toxic chemicals. And soon, it may be contaminated with H1N1 vaccine material from all the millions of unused doses that pharmacies couldn't manage to peddle to consumers.

In the end, all those unused vaccines will eventually end up as crop fertilizer. It's yet another reason to avoid monoculture crops and grow your own food using biodynamic organic gardening methods.

Mounting Debilities and Deaths from H1N1 Vaccine

Posted by: Dr. Mercola www.Mercola.com December 05 2009

For the complete article and references, go to:

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/12/05/Swine-Flu-Shot-Side-Effects-Beginning-to-Take-Their-Toll.aspx

Jordan McFarland, a 14-year-old boy from Virginia, is weak and struggling to walk after coming down with a reported case of Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) within hours after receiving the H1N1 vaccine for swine flu. Jordan left Inova Fairfax Hospital for Children in a wheelchair nearly a week after developing severe headaches, muscle spasms and weakness in his legs following a swine flu shot.

A young health care worker in France has also been diagnosed with GBS six days after she received a swine flu shot.

Swedish, Japanese, and Chinese health officials have reported a number of serious side effects, including deaths of people who received the H1N1 vaccine. In China, two people died hours after receiving their inoculations. Among those inoculated so far in China, more than 1,200 have complained of side effects ranging from sore arms, rashes, and headaches, to anaphylactic shock and sudden drops in blood pressure. Fifty-four percent of Chinese residents reported in a China Daily survey that they would not get the H1N1 vaccine because of concerns about the shot's safety.

At the beginning of November, a 42-year-old Quebec woman died two days after receiving the H1N1 vaccine. But authorities attributed her death to complications resulting from the H1N1 virus. What they didn’t say was that flu-like symptoms are also some of the adverse reactions you get from receiving a flu shot. It’s no surprise, then, that when an 80-year-old man died in Quebec after getting his H1N1 vaccine, health officials dismissed that too, saying it was too soon to link his death to the shot. Instead, they stressed that adverse reactions to this vaccine are “rare” and that “there is no evidence that the vaccine is dangerous”.

They also didn’t say that other reactions can include Guillian-Barre Syndrome (GBS) convulsions, syncope (fainting), blood and lymphatic system disorders, and immune disorders such as anaphylaxis, just to name a few – all events that can be life-threatening enough to end in death.

GSK’s H1N1 vaccine (which was granted FDA approval for use in the US as recently as November 10) was pulled in Manitoba, Canada after too many life-threatening reactions occurred there. As reported on CTV/Canada on November 20, the vaccine was triggering so many anaphylactic reactions that health officials and GSK pulled more than 170,000 doses of one batch. They tried to downplay their actions by saying this was merely a “precaution,” perhaps because much of this batch had already been disbursed. They admitted that 36 severe adverse events had been reported, most of which were allergic reactions that occurred within minutes of the shot, and all of which were treated “promptly.” But they glossed over the fact that one person died from an anaphylactic reaction, saying “the death hasn't been conclusively linked to the flu shot.” Manitoba health officials stated that severe allergic reactions from the batch in question was observed at a ratio of 1 in 20,000, which is FIVE TIMES higher than the typical rate of 1 in 100,000.

On November 15, the Turkish Republic released an anaphylactic reaction memorandum to its vaccine centers, warning them to watch out for “frightening side effects” to this vaccine. It seems that a doctor there went into a coma after his H1N1vaccination, the Turkish press said.

In Japan, at the end of October, seven of 22,000 medical workers vaccinated with H1N1 had developed side effects, four of them considered serious? Twenty five patients there had also reported side effects that included vomiting, allergic reactions and diminished consciousness?
Similar events are happening all over the world, but for the most part are not being reported in the mainstream press.

Vaccine Myths Exposed by Pediatrician, Dr. Larry Palevsky

Posted by: Dr. Mercola www.Mercola.com November 14 2009 35,756 views

Go to the link below to see the video interview of Dr. Palevsky by Dr. Mercola
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/11/14/Expert-Pediatrician-Exposes-Vaccine-Myths.aspx

Dr. Larry Palevsky is a board-certified pediatrician trained at the New York School of Medicine, and one of the leading physicians in the country who, from my view, is actually able to compellingly and convincingly provide sound, rational, scientific justification as to why you need to seriously reconsider the wisdom of choosing vaccines as an option to prevent against most diseases.

Here is a list of the questions discussed and answered in this important paper:

The Difference Between What You Learn in School and What Works

Have the Proper Safety Studies Actually Been Done?

How a Conventionally Trained Physician Accepts that Vaccines Can Cause Harm

The NVIC (National Vaccine Information Center) Set to Create Groundbreaking Vaccine Safety

Are Some Vaccines Safer Than Others?

The Dangers of Adjuvants

What about the Swine Flu Vaccine?

The Concept of Herd Immunity – BUSTED!

The Difference between Natural Immunity and Vaccine-lnduced Immunity

The Dangers of Combining Vaccines

About Dr. Lawrence B. Palevsky, M.D., F.A.A.P.
For more information or to contact Dr. Palevsky, please visit www.drpalevsky.com or contact info@drpalevsky.com

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