Source:American
Council on Science and Health, April 12, 2010

The
pesticide and chemical industry front group American Council on Science and Health is lauding organic gardens
advocate Alice Waters for
hes refusing a
request from the Organic
Consumers Association to publicly oppose growing food in toxic sewage sludge, or “organic
biosolids compost”, as the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission prefers to
call it. The ACSH, bankrolled by a long list of polluting companies,
cites a

recent
New York Times blog about the controversial
sludge-for-your-garden give-away that San Francisco was forced
to temporarily halt just ahead of a March 4, 2010, protest at
City Hall. ACSH’s Gilbert Ross
bemoans the temporary victory won by OCA, saying “the program has been
halted, to everyone’s detriment.” The Executive Director of Alice
Waters’ Chez
Panisse Foundation is Francesca Vietor,
who is also the Vice President of the SF Public Utilities
Commission that since 2007 has been deceiving and fooling San
Francisco gardeners into putting toxic sewage sludge on their gardens,
by telling them it is organic compost. The OCA is now organizing to make
their victory permanent and force San Francisco to clean up the gardens
contaminated by their sludge give-away program. OCA would also like
chef Alice Waters and her Chez Panisse Foundation to take a clear public
stand against growing any food in toxic sludge. Blogger Jill
Richardson has also appealed to
Waters, writing that ACSH still thinks “DDT should be legal. Don’t
let them count you as being on their side” in the sewage sludge fight.
Richardson notes that San Francisco’s own testing found nasty
toxins including dioxins in its phony organic compost.