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The US Department of Agriculture's (USDA) current definition states that organic foods are those plants produced without the use of pesticides, sewage sludge (for fertilization) or synthetic fertilizer. . .or those animals raised without hormones or antibiotics. To read the complete definition, go to the USDA's Web site at www.ams.usda.gov/nop/NOP/ standards, html. Organic foods, including produce, meat, milk and other dairy products, typically cost more than nonorganic varieties.

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Organic food is produced without using most conventional pesticides, fertilizers made with synthetic ingredients or sewage sludge, bioengineering, or ionizing radiation. Before a product can be labeled 'organic,' a government-approved certifier inspects the farm where the food is grown to make sure the farmer is following all the rules necessary to meet USDA organic standards. Companies that handle or process organic food before it gets to your local supermarket or restaurant must be certified, too." What does any of this have to do with cosmetics?

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You cannot take sewage sludge and put it on farmlands. You cannot feed animals things like blood, slaughterhouse waste, manure and municipal garbage, and you cannot use untested and hazardous technologies like genetic engineering or fruit irradiation. The animals have to be raised on pasture - which is their natural behavior - where every day of the growing season, weather permitting, they are out on pasture eating grass and foraging as they have evolved to do.

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Organic food is produced without using most conventional pesticides; fertilizers made with synthetic ingredients or sewage sludge; bioengineering; or ionizing radiation. Before a product can be labeled "organic," a government-approved certifier inspects the farm where the food is grown to make sure the farmer is following all the rules necessary to meet USDA organic standards. Companies that handle or process organic food before it gets to your local supermarket or restaurant must be certified, too But what does that really tell us?

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You cannot take sewage sludge and put it on farmlands. You cannot feed animals things like blood, slaughterhouse waste, manure and municipal garbage, and you cannot use untested and hazardous technologies like genetic engineering or fruit irradiation. The animals have to be raised on pasture -- which is their natural behavior -- where every day of the growing season, weather permitting, they are out on pasture eating grass and foraging as they have evolved to do.

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Organic food is produced without using most conventional pesticides; fertilizers made with synthetic ingredients or sewage sludge; bioengineering; or ionizing radiation. Before a product can be labeled "organic," a government-approved certifier inspects the farm where the food is grown to make sure the farmer is following all the rules necessary to meet USDA organic standards. The USDA developed a seal to certify that a food is organic. But the use of the seal is voluntary, so some organic foods may not be labeled with the USDA seal.

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The guidelines establish clear organic labeling criteria, and specifically prohibit the use of genetic engineering methods, ionizing radiation, and sewage sludge for fertilization. organic chemicals Substances derived from living organisms, containing carbon. organic solvents A solvent is a liquid that dissolves a solute. The solvent is the component of the solution that is present in greater amount. Organic solvents include substances such as benzene, tetrachlomethylene, and turpentine. They are usually flammable materials and may pose certain physical and chemical hazards.

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This poison is found in our soil, water, and food supply, as well as in sewage sludge, fungicides, and pesticides. Some grains and seeds are treated with methyl mercury chlorine bleaches, which seep into the food supply. Because methyl mercury contaminates our waters, large amounts are found in fish, particularly larger ones that are farther up in the food chain. An estimated one-third (or possibly more) of America's lakes and one-fourth of its rivers now contain fish that may be contaminated with mercury.

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They also proposed a number of other new rules that deviated from the traditional definition, such as allowing food to be irradiated, fields to be fertilized with sewage sludge, and animals to remain confined. Over 275,000 letters, faxes, emails, and signatures poured into the USDA, forcing them to reconsider. The new rules forbid the use of genetic engineering for products labeled as organic. If seeds or crops have been accidentally mixed with GM content, the product cannot be sold as organic. An exception is made in the case of contamination from cross-pollination.

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Under these rules, organic crops cannot be genetically engineered, irradiated, or fertilized with sewage sludge; farmland where crops are grown is prohibited from being treated with synthetic pesticides and herbicides for at least three years prior to harvest; and farm animals raised under organic standards cannot receive antibiotics or growth hormones. Accepting any less than these "standards" for our food seems foolhardy, if not irresponsible. (See Chapter 26.) Eating organic food and drinking quality water will cost more, but it can profoundly affect long-term health.

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But in fact organic certification practices specifically prohibit the use of sewage sludge. It is commercial growers, not organic farmers, who can, and do, use sewage sludge to amend the soil. John Stossel, co-anchor of ABC's 20/20, and the host of the program that attacked organic food, publicly apologized on a subsequent episode of the national television show for falsifying evidence in the report and relying on fabricated laboratory tests.14 He was reprimanded by ABC, and the show's producer was suspended for a month. Many "accuracy in journalism" groups said Stossel should have been fired.

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Other sources of cadmium exposure are waste incineration, fossil-fuel burning, sewage sludge, and phosphate fertilizers. Smokers are exposed to cadmium contained in tobacco. Cadmium is found in antiseborrheic (dandruff and oily discharge) medications, antiseptics, and pesticides. Hobbyists working in poorly ventilated workspaces may be exposed to toxic levels of cadmium dust and fumes.

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Toxic waste from industry, however, remains largely untreated in the process—it is pumped into waterways or trapped in sewage sludge. IS YOUR WATER SAFE? There is no such thing as pure water. Water is the universal solvent. It has the ability to dissolve almost anything it comes in contact with. So even the cleanest water contains—in addition to hydrogen and oxygen—minerals, salts, trace metals, and organic matter, most of which are invisible, tasteless, and odorless. Fortunately, many of these are beneficial to health.

Avoid sewage sludge to fertilize plants—it may contain heavy metals and pesticides, both of which can leach into your soil. Newspapers make good mulch. Newsprint no longer contains the heavy metals it used to. TEST SOIL FOR LEAD Lead is a concern in garden soil. It's a good idea to have your garden soil tested for lead levels. You may be gardening in a high-risk area if any or all of the following conditions exist: ¦ Your house was built or painted before 1950, when leaded paint was used.

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For example, organic farmers can no longer use genetic engineering, radiation, sewage sludge for fertilizer, or any synthetic pesticide or fertilizer. In addition, animals used for meat, milk, eggs, etc., cannot receive hormones or antibiotics. Protects your heart Combats cancer Support© immune system Fights fungus Smoothes skin outside, it looks like a red cherry, but bite into it, and you're in for a surprise. Many people say it tastes like a tart apple, although its flesh is soft and juicy. And unlike an apple or a cherry, the acerola is bursting with vitamin C.

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Mining, smelting, fossil fuel use, fertilizer application, and sewage sludge. Geological. Abandoned mining operations and electroplating operations. Geological. Leaches from lead pipe and lead based solder pipe joints. Airborne lead from gasoline combustion. Used in manufacture of paint, paper, vinyl chloride. Used in fungicides. Geological. Fertilizer, sewage, feedlots, geological. Coal burning, mining, smelting, selenium refining, glass manufacture, and fuel oil combustion. Geological.

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Does this mean that the vitamins sold in the store that are made out of ground up rocks and shells, iron filings, and acdvated sewage sludge are natural substances that are going to heal our bodies? How do we think that a substance which can kill children in an overdose (synthedc iron tablets) is something healthy for us? Does natural mean the caterpillar fungus, the tuberculosis-filled lung dssue, and spider parts that some homeopathic medicines are made from will heal our bodies? Natural doesn't seem to mean anything anymore. I even see pharmaceutical drugs with the label "natural" on them!

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The exported material includes heavy metal residues and chemical-contaminated wastes, pharmaceutical refuse, and municipal sewage sludge and incinerator ash. The risks involved for countries that accept our wastes range from contamination of groundwater and crops to birth defects and cancer. Traditionally, the majority of U.S. toxic waste exports have gone to Canada, where regulations are less stringent than in the U.S. But now the most abrupt increase is in shipments to the Third World where the regulations are either nonexistent or loosely enforced.

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She phoned to say that she had seen an advance notice mentioning our book, and she was concerned that the title might interfere with the Federation's plans to transform the image of sewage sludge. "It's not toxic," she said, "and we're launching a campaign to get people to stop calling it sludge. We call it 'biosolids.' It can be used beneficially to fertilize farm fields, and we see nothing wrong with that. We've got a lot of work ahead to educate the public on the value of biosolids." Blatt didn't think the title of our book would be helpful to her cause.

Our investigation into the PR campaign for "beneficial use" of sewage sludge revealed a murky tangle of corporate and government bureaucracies, conflicts of interest, and a coverup of massive hazards to the environment and human health. The trail began with the Water Environment Federation—formerly known as the "Federation of Sewage Works Associations"—and led finally to Hugh Kaufman, the legendary whistleblower at the hazardous site control division of the Environmental Protection Agency.

Toxicologists, public health scientists and medical researchers have not had a similar money pot available to study the potential dangers and adverse health effects of sewage sludge. It is no wonder then that the scientists selected by the EPA to serve on sludge advisory committees are the 'beneficial use' researchers, and the only research reports they deem acceptable for the purpose of adopting new sludge spreading regulations are from the 'beneficial use' studies. . . .

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Other sources of mercury are mirrors, latex paints, fabric softeners, felt, floor waxes and polishes, sewage sludge, laxatives containing calomel, cinnabar jewelry, tatoo dyes, and many others. Most of these are not specifically mercury toxic, as they do not give off high amounts of volatile mercury. Fungicides are the most widely used and probably the most potentially toxic. Methods of toxicity: Mercury has no known essential functions, though it was at one time used to treat syphilis, with some success.

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It can also be found in some refined foods (especially white flour and rice), fertilizers, batteries and sewage sludge. Nickel Nickel is a heavy metal that is toxic at high levels but does have an essential role in the body at low levels. At low levels, nickel may help stabilize the building blocks of our bodies, the DNA and the RNA. In addition, small amounts of nickel have been used to successfully treat psoriasis. Nickel can be ingested, inhaled or absorbed through the skin.

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Meanwhile, dried poultry waste and sewage sludge are routinely fed to U.S. cattle (supplementing the basic diet of grain and soybeans).12 In 1997, in the wake of the British epidemic of Mad Cow disease, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) finally banned the practice of feeding cow meat and bone meal back to cows. But pigs and chickens are still routinely fed the bones, brains, meat scraps, feathers, and feces of their own species. There are many people who love their pets, and would be appalled at the idea of eating cats and dogs.

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Foods can be contaminated from fields spread with sewage sludge. Municipal sewage systems collect and treat 11.6 billion pounds of waste materials every year. Up to 36 percent of this sludge is spread on crops. Oh, they don't really use sludge on fields, do they? Why not? Look at what else gets used. The Associated Press broke a story that toxic heavy metals (cadmium and lead, which are known hormone disruptors, and arsenic), chemicals (such as dioxins), and even radioactive wastes are being dumped into fertilizer products and then spread over farmers' fields across the nation.

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The Turning of the Tide The citizen revolt that took place in the United States in the late 1990s, when the USDA tried to establish a definition of organic that would have included genetically modified organisms, irradiated food, and food grown with toxic sewage sludge, changed the course of American agriculture. But even more powerful, and even more historic, has been the uprising that has been taking place globally against genetically engineered food.

It is commercial growers, not organic farmers, who can, and do, use sewage sludge to amend the soil. John Stossel, co-anchor of ABC's 20/20, and the host of the program that attacked organic food, publicly apologized on a subsequent episode of the national television show for falsifying evidence in the report and relying on fabricated laboratory tests.14 He was reprimanded by ABC, and the show's producer was suspended for a month. Many "accuracy in journalism" groups said Stossel should have been fired. What had been Stossel's motive?

In fact, in 1997, the USDA attempted to set federal organic standards that would have completely destroyed the organic industry by allowing genetically engineered foods, as well as foods that had been irradiated and grown with heavy metal-laden sewage sludge, to be classified as organic. Consumers would have lost all trust in the organic label.

Cattle typically graze on rangeland for the first part of their lives, and then are moved to feedlots for their last three or four months, where they are fed grain and soybeans, supplemented, lest they get bored with the cuisine, with dried poultry waste, sewage sludge, and worse. It is nearly impossible to overestimate the impact of cattle grazing on the western United States. Seventy percent of the land area of the American West is currently used for grazing livestock.

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CHAPTER EIGHT ThE SludqE Hjts t^e Fan The major public acceptance barrier which surfaced in all the case studies is the widely held perception of sewage sludge as malodorous, disease causing or otherwise repulsive. . . . There is an irrational component to public attitudes about sludge which means that public education will not be entirely successful. US ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 1981 public relations document The German politician Otto von Bismarck once said that "those who love sausage and the law should never watch either being made.

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