Chapter 8: I was blown away that there are over 60,000 toxins and chemicals in sewage sludge. I knew it was bad for you but wow. How is this reusable for farming let alone farming plants that we eat...

2.) In Florida 10,000+ acres are routinely fertilized with "sludge" even though on the label it says not to use for food-producing soil. This makes me want to buy local.

3.) The EPA encourages communities to use sewage sludge even though they know the harmful effects. They need somewhere to put it and are "lulling" people into using it.

4.) New York Organic and Merco haul over a thousand tons of sewage sludge a day out of New York City. This is absolutely disgusting. Where is it all going? And for $634 million? crazy...

5.) The test sludge in Sierra Blanca in 1994 showed over 35x the level of fecal coliform bacteria and Jon Masters said it wasn't a problem and that the test results were often inaccurate. Even in the full on confrontation these people continue to lie.

Chapter 9

1.) There are more PR practitioners in the US than there are reporters. The power has been given to PR executives to completely dictate what is shared in the media. We are powerless to hear the truth.

2.) The reference to Environmental activists being "eco-terrorists" made me chuckle simply on how ridiculous it is. Yeah right. How can someone say that ecological crises don't exist.

3.) Corporations giving money to organizations such as the Audubon Society. These are the same corporations that are trashing the planet however if they are seen giving money there public image is environmentally friendly people? How do people buy this crap?

4.) Mcdonald's sued a tiny group in London for criticizing it's policies because they were undermining the company's cultivated image. THey are to this day one of the most environmentally harmful corporations in the world.

5.) The Wise Use Act is really really scary to me especially when there goal is to "wipe out every environmental group, by replacing it with a Wise Use Group" and they're closely involved with the PR industry. Talking about giving National Park development to corporations. Wise Use groups would be the perfect liars corporations would need to steadily trick Americans into handing there land and water over to the PR industry.

My Question is..Moving forward...Is it possible to organize a large and non-corporate funded organization that will be "allowed" to progress successfully without being "replaced" by groups such as Wise Use or other organizaitons?

April 6, 2010 9:36 AM