Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:31:22 -0400
From: myra dotson <>
Subject: reply to post #16 on Chatham Chatlist #4110 [8/11/11]
Dear Chatlist readers and John Dykers,
There is another “PROBLEM” besides an export tax, docking problems, and IT IS MORE COMPLICATED. With corn or any crop that is imported from overseas, it is not known how this crop is produced. Specifically “IS THIS CROP GROWN USING TOXIC SEWAGE SLUDGE AS A FERTILIZER” or watered with sewage water or “grey water”.
Would it be known that this “UKRAINIAN CORN” was not grown near or on land contaminated by radiation from Chernobyl, for instance? Even food produced in the USA may not be safe. We, as consumers closely follow all the stories of contaminated food, such as salmonella in spinach, e.coli in bean sprouts, c. diff. in beef, poisoned pet food from China. Matter of fact, when Townsend owned the facility, I personally followed an 18-wheel rig carrying a load of cut corn and silage, from a cornfield that was so thickly spread with sewage sludge that it had ‘clotted’ in huge sheets [pictures were taken]. This corn was taken to the Townsend facility outside of Siler City! The farmer was Mr. David Ridling, who lives in Salisbury, because he is not going to ‘sludge’ his neighborhood near his million dollar home and Olympic size pool. He leases the farmland, and gets toxic sewage sludge from Synagro, so his wallet can befatter at the end of the day. He had an agreement with Townsend THAT HE WOULD NOT grow corn on land spread with toxic sewage sludge, but he was doing it anyway [there is video showing him stating this fact]. Townsend was trying to make sure it’s feedstock was clean and high quality…Townsend was notified of Mr. Ridling’s farming practice of using FREE FERTILIZER —- sewage sludge. Now, if Townsend did not know a farmer was using sludge, right down the road from Siler City, it would be impossible to know where and how Ukrainian corn or corn from overseas countries is produced and if it is clean and safe….. Buyer beware! Consumer beware! For more information contact www.sewagesludgeactionnetwork.
comMyra Dotson,
ChairSEWAGE SLUDGE ACTION NETWORKwww.sewagesludgeactionnetwork.com