Sludge Watch ==> Ontario - Pathogenic fecal waste - Toilet to Table! Tax Revolt

[Maureen Reilly]

Sludgewatch Admin:

Wendy Deavitt makes a wonderful point in this posting.

She says that the spreading of sludge on nearby properties lowers the value 
of adjacent homes...causing properties to be unsaleable and lowering person 
use and enjoyment.

So residents near sludge sites are petitioning to have their taxes 
lowered...to reflect the lowere property values.


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Biosolids, pathogenic human feces
Canadian Free Press
>From the Toilet to the table!!!
By OnTheWeb: Wendy Deavitt  Friday, November 9, 2007


Most people in rural Ontario are probably tired of reading about the 
biosolids issue.  Unfortunately, for many rural residents, the issue is a 
daily routine.  When you have to deal with a farmer who lives by the 
attitude; “it’s my land and I don’t care what my neighbors think, I will do 
what I want with it”, and when this farmer does not use the sewage sludge on 
his farm, where he raises his family, you have to wonder what happened to 
morals and respect?

We thought 6 years ago, we had found our dream home--a hobby farm in a rural 
community an hour from the city.  What we did not know, as is what happens 
to a lot of unsuspecting buyers, was that the real estate agent did not 
bother to mention that a few farmers in the area use biosolids (pathogenic 
human feces and untested industrial chemical waste) to fertilize their 
crops.  Had we known, we definitely would have shopped elsewhere, as will a 
lot of people who will discover this is happening, thus affecting everyone’s 
property values!!!

As much as the locals and the municipal officials want to ignore the fact 
that this is happening in their community or that it is not in their 
backyard, so they don’t give a damm, the fact is that this does affect 
everyone!

Despite the fact that I personally have received hundreds of documents from 
scientists, doctors, researchers and citizens, who have either complained 
about adverse health effects or concerns about the potential risk to human 
health, environment and property values in the area, the practice still goes 
on!

Whether the farmer who uses biosolids (sewage sludge, human feces or 
whatever you want to call it) on crops that grow hay, soya, wheat or corn, 
it all ends up back on your kitchen table.  The hay is fed to the cow, which 
is milked or slaughtered for meat or the soya, wheat or oats, which is sold 
to the mills and ends up in cereal, breads, etc.; it all ends up in the FOOD 
CHAIN!!!

Year after year of saturation of the biosolids (sewage sludge) on the 
fields, how long before it reaches the water tables that feed rivers, lakes, 
streams and our wells?  Has your well become contaminated for no apparent 
reason?

Have we become such a complacent society, that unless we can see, touch or 
smell it, it does not concern us?  Well, I had to burst your bubble folks, 
but this concerns every citizen who eats/drinks or plans to buy property in 
rural Ontario!!!!

The only way this is going to change is if Ontarians stand together and 
demand policy change and stop the application of biosolids on agricultural 
land of Ontario--our FOOD CHAIN!!!  There is an online petition, please help 
put a stop to this insanity!!!

We will be applying to Mpac to have our property reassessed to reflect the 
decline in our property value and would encourage anyone who is adjacent to 
or near a field that is being sludged to do the same.  If you or anyone you 
know has been adversely affected by the application of biosolids or their 
animals have become ill, please contact myself; Wendy Deavitt--705-924-3765.

Posted 11/9 at 06

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/572