Sludge Watch ==> Human sewage harms sheep foetuses - EPA &WEF & WERF don't care

[Maureen Reilly]

Dear Sludge Folks

Recently Sludge Watch posted a scientific report on pasturing sheep on 
sludged farmlands.
The study showed impacts on the lambs in utero.  This scientific study put 
the wind up the EPA, WERF and WERF officials who are apparently paid to 
obscure, withhold or refute scientific information that may impede the 
disposal of sewage sludge inexpensively on rural lands.  So when the study 
was posted the usual suspects cast about for some way to dismiss the science 
report.

What is obscene in the dialogue that followed is that the government is 
supposed to protect the public and the environment from these waste sludge 
disposal projects. The government was supposed to do all the necessary 
research to review and evaluate all the impacts of transferring these fecal 
wastes and industrial compounds into the environment and onto the food chain 
BEFORE allowing the practice.  They did not do this.  Now they are 
protecting a waste disposal practice from scientific scrunity in the face of 
a huge dossier of public complaint and illness.

We see a waste industry and a government on the run from science, on the run 
from the public, and on the run from the environmental and health 
consequences of their policies and practices.  They ask members of the  
public to conduct peer reviewed studies of their own health issues or shut 
up.

Government EPA officials are under their desks hoping to cling to 'plausible 
deniability' while the retired early propoganists for introducing 
contaminated sewer compounds into rural communities are running around the 
countryside and shrieking their sludge joy like  'EPA Administrators Gone 
Wild'.

Four years ago WERF asked for input from 'stakeholders' on sludge issues. 
The stakeholders told them to put together a team of experts to launch rapid 
investigation of health and contamination complaints related to sludge use.

Where is it?  It has shrunk to 'developing a questionaire that could be 
administered to people who have health related sludge complaints'.  Duh?  
And this teensey fragment of the original request.... where it that four 
years later? Nowhere.  Below you see the people who are paid from public 
funds to protect us from sludge contamination searching the globe to find 
people to try to discredit the studies of sludges' harmful impacts.

The sludge industry and their regulators need to get into a program, confess 
their failure to protect the environment from sludge and start doing the 
right thing.   They need to stop land application of sludge, and find a less 
toxic approach to sanitation and sludge disposal.



Sludgewatch Word of the Day:  Plausible:
plau·si·ble (plô'zə-bəl)
adj.
-  Seemingly or apparently valid, likely, or acceptable; credible: a 
plausible excuse.

-  Giving a deceptive impression of truth or reliability.

-  Disingenuously smooth; fast-talking: “Ambitious, unscrupulous, energetic, 
… and plausible,—a        political gladiator, ready for a ‘set-to’ in any 
crowd” (Frederick Douglass).


[Latin plausibilis, deserving applause, from plausus, past participle of 
plaudere, to applaud