{"id":903,"date":"2009-12-17T08:59:53","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T14:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-fromme\/?p=903"},"modified":"2009-12-17T09:11:42","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T15:11:42","slug":"food-glorious-sludge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-fromme\/food-glorious-sludge\/","title":{"rendered":"Food Glorious Sludge?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"ctl00_ctl00_ctl00_bcr_bcr_bcr_lblDrComments\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;If you\u2019re looking for a compelling reason to switch to a primarily organic diet, the fact that it is free from sewage sludge fertilizers is a very good one. Sewage sludge, or \u201cbiosolids\u201d &#8212; as they\u2019re referred to with a PR spin &#8212; began being \u201crecycled\u201d into food crops when, ironically, it was realized that dumping them into rivers, lakes and bays was an environmental disaster.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) states that about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epa.gov\/OWM\/mtb\/biosolids\/genqa.htm\">50 percent of all biosolids are recycled to land<\/a>. This sludge is what\u2019s leftover after sewage is treated and processed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Your first thought may be the \u201cyuck factor\u201d of human waste being used to fertilize your food, but that is only the tip of the iceberg. Every time a paintbrush gets rinsed, an old bottle of medications flushed, or solvents are hosed off a factory floor, it ends up in the sewage system. &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/articles.mercola.com\/sites\/articles\/archive\/2009\/12\/17\/Toxic-Sewage-Sludge-in-Your-Food.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Read the rest from Mercola<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If you\u2019re looking for a compelling reason to switch to a primarily organic diet, the fact that it is free from sewage sludge fertilizers is a very good one. Sewage sludge, or \u201cbiosolids\u201d &#8212; as they\u2019re referred to with a PR spin &#8212; began being \u201crecycled\u201d into food crops when, \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-fromme\/food-glorious-sludge\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-helps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-fromme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-fromme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-fromme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-fromme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-fromme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=903"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-fromme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":905,"href":"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-fromme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions\/905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-fromme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-fromme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-fromme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}