Biosolid Battle

Wheatfield is standing up against a wrong headed decision by NY over the use of biolsolid waste as a fertilizer.

Biosolid waste is the result anaerobically treated human waste. The result is two environmentally destructive products – methane gas which is burned to produce electricity and a semi-solid waste that the producers want to sell as fertilizer for crop fields. (I accidentally typed “crap fields” there. All things being considered, knowing how farmers fertilize their fields, it's closer to the truth.)

Wheatfield resident Monica Diegler has it correct when she states that farmers have a “right to farm, not a right to pollute.”

Biosolid waste is an environmental pollutant. They have been tested by several researchers and have been found to be loaded with heavy metals (a known cancer causing agent) and medical waste. (Know all those drugs that doctors pump into us in the form of injections and pills? Or bodies don't just absorb them. They expel as much as 90% of it through urination and defecation. Do you really want someone else's erectile dysfunction drug? Or birth control pill? Or pain killers? )

Remember: Whatever we put on the ground goes into our food.

I want organically grown safe food.

Those in Wheatfield that are fighting against the use of biolsolid waste are on the right side of history and we need to support them with everything that we have: From helping to pay for the legal team that is fighting against the court's decision, to providing pro-bono legal support, to picketing the meetings and the farm that wants to use biosolid waste as fertilizer. (The name of the farm is in the Buffalo News. Let them take the heat for publishing it.)

As eco-socialists we demand and end to the use of biosolid waste as fertilizer and the expanded use of organically produced fertilizer instead. (Think compost from fruits and vegetables. It's safer to make and use and is much friendlier to the environment and nature. As well as people.)