Texas ranchers say ‘forever chemicals’ in waste-based fertilizers ruined their land
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- The fertilizer maker says its products are safe, and that the government supports using it as a valuable practice that recycles nutrients to farmland.
What’s sad is the farmers thought they were getting a good product that research showed was safe. A family member of mine worked for Bayor Crop Sciences and she told me that they’ll intentionally end a research project just before the problems start showing up. Like they’ll say roundup was safe in research, but if they had continued for another few weeks then they would have had to report that the lab mice were covered in tumors.
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Wtf bro and all this for money😂
We are fcked
Correct. Same with the rovid quackcine
Animal agriculture is the leading cause of deforestation, habitat destruction, water pollution, ocean dead zones and *species extinction* . -United Nations FAO
@@leviahimsa ocean dead zones are from commercial fertilizer runoff
"Little to no" means it absolutely has a huge impact.
wish I could dump chemcials into a product and just point my finger at the government saying its safe without worry.
Tbf, every fertilizer has that caveat. Most chemicals do. Almost anything is harmful in enough concentration.
In Maine , Farmers excepted this stuff , the state called it fertilizer , and claimed it was safe , the farmers thought they were helping , now they’re being shut down for Forever chemicals in the soil ,
Yes the state DEP approved and permitted the spreading of human waste mostly trucked in from Boston and spread in Maine. Worst part is the government permitted it so punishing them is punishing the taxpayer.
@@troytreeguy until qualified immunity is revoked and gone forever, it'll keep happening. Once government employees are held personally accountable they won't be so quick to do ethically questionable things. Once the prisons fill up with politicians, chomo teachers, code enforcers, hysterical society members, environmentally ill officials, etc.. things will change.
All going according to plan.
Im from Portland Maine.
This is disturbing.
@@peacefuldawn761 last I heard , 54 or 56 big farms , and counting ! It’s been a few months since that video , if your in Maine , a site I like , Hippie Chick in Maine , I think it’s called , she’s my age , one of 2 , just life sites I watch , the other is Ernie’s Cabin , it’s like listening to Grandpa ! Peaceful ! Have a Fine Day !
This is tragic! This company needs to stop immediately and ALL of these companies need to find a safe way to dispose of them.
Where do you suggest they take it?
They cant... they dont have money to survive.. people are gonna die..
They CANT survive if they did have money..
@@randelwest3751right 👍, why even profit from making dangerous chemicals if you have to be the one responsible for the incalculable damage being done?
@@randelwest3751The company that produced them. These type of fertilizers shouldn't be allowed
@@randelwest3751China
My parents fought this for years and nothing was ever done, the sludge dumping continues to this day. There was actually a book written about this by a journalist on the other side of their state. I believe it's called "fateful harvest" or something like that. Good luck fighting them. There's too much money on their side in this business. The rural landowners will continue to be taken advantage of, that garbage needs to go somewhere and it's easy to squash the common man.
Thank republicans for rolling back and stalling EPA rulings and oversight. These Texas ranchers voted for them. They shot themselves in the foot.
@@johnbell1810 Thanks democrats for creating the conditions where we're so poor that we have to fight over things like the EPA existing.
But I thought people in Texas like low regulations?
Isn't that the politics they vote for?
The free market will solve this, right?
Well they vote for politicians that would be perfectly happy dismantling the EPA.
Epa also said no power plants and small cars too. But keep defending the epa lol
Dupont and 3M should be paying for this.
Royce DuPont is a saint
I wouldn’t hold my breath on that one.
They need to go out of business.
For real ENOUGH w the Teflon etc etc!!! Have known this isbcarcinogen for litetally DECADES!!!
Remember what Dupont did in Bhopal India? They couldn't care less about people.
The scary thing is that I just saw a video recently about how one of the largest waste treatment facilities in the country (can't remember which state now) is also processing some of the waste into "fertilizer" like this. This is why you need to go either only organic, or simply make your own soil amendments like compost where all the ingredients are ones that you can personally account for as being non toxic
Sadly, this has & is being done all over the United States, where Sewage Treatment Plants extract the "SOLIDS" from the Liquids. Then they mix the Solids from Sewage with Green Waste a mixtures of wheat straw, plant material, corncob or sunflower stalk. Here in California the Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant is a sewage treatment plant in southwest Los Angeles, California, next to Dockweiler State Beach on Santa Monica Bay. The plant is the largest sewage treatment facility in the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area and one of the largest plants in the world. All the Sludge is trucked 100 Miles to Kern County to The Green Acres Biosolids Land Application Project consists of two interrelated "subsequent activities" in the City's on-going biosolids program transportation up to 800 tons of Sewage Sludge a Day, which the City Government Agency has given this TOXIC Sludge as a "Class A" biosolid. In which they are growing crops to Feed to Cattle. & We wonder why we don't feel good... JUST SICK!
The sad thing is it wouldn't cost much more to do it safely and properly. Uncontaminated human waste (and animal waste) could replace a lot of petrochemical fertilizer. But if you basically just dredge up everything that gets flushed down and throw it on the ground you're getting a cocktail of chemicals from drugs to drain cleaner mixing in unknown ways.
@@luisostasuc8135 Kind of funny that you're assuming that human waste is not contaminated. We all have pfas in our systems.
does to certify organic include soil content or just application of chemicals? I often wondered if soil was included - just looked it up - a certifier will look at the condition of the soil and MAY take some soil for testing... so it sounds like they don't extensively test the soil for chemicals rather they seem to concentrate on process and handling so applications to the plants is more of a monitored concern. The soil should be thoroughly tested as well as the a sample of the product for sale I would think
@@luisostasuc8135it’s not about cost bud they don’t care about money they just wanna weaken us
I tried to warn my neighbors but they didn't listen. I will never use it simply because everything that goes down the drain ends up there. Tons of toxic chems I don't want my animals eating!
That seems like a no-brainer. Seems like these people chose to destroy their land for all time and people to come, and then tried to blame others just because they could get away with putting that stuff on their land, at the time.
And they did it because it was 50 cents cheaper
Good to know there are some people out there who aren't suckers! Keep up the good work.
Yea these farmers are incredibly dumb
The problem is not biosolids themselves then, the problem is the extensive use if pfas in our products!!!!
Exactly. If it is being crapped out by us because we use the products (according to this report, even though some just go down the drain without internal consumption by humans)..... and then it is dangerous to cattle and fish after further processing...., then it is not good for us at any point in the chain.
Sounds like what they discovered about CFC’s years ago. Find the chemicals causing the problem and ban it
Pfas are essentially mutant prozac
It's both
Animal agriculture is the leading cause of deforestation, habitat destruction, water pollution, ocean dead zones and *species extinction* . -United Nations FAO
Thank you so much for covering this story.
I wish she would've covered Robert Bilot's Exposure, I think this was the first case taken to court over pfas. Dupont, 3m etc have ruined the world's water supply.
@@TerraGarten-cl8iz 💔
The question is why are they allowed, and who is supposed to be monitoring them?
Socialize the risk, privatize the gains.
Exactly right.
The worst part is how they've convinced some people that this is, you know, good free market Merican capitalism at work, like it's good for us.
As a Republican and proud NRA member, I see nothing wrong with that.
@@northernbohemianrealistI hope you’re joking, you loony!
The american way, op
Love how sherrif made an investigation into this protecting the constituents. Great report by news
When are we going to realize that the further we stray away from how Mother Nature grows animals, and food for us naturally the more dangerous it becomes. It is unsustainable to grow on these massive scales.
No such thing as “mother nature” what you refer to is God’s design, and if we harmonize with His design, His laws then we are healthy and fruitful even prosperous, the inverse is true as well. The Bible clearly details this truth and greed is a highway that leads away from fruitfulness and prosperity. Do you believe that?
@@roberttrout3588 You can call it what you like “god” “mother nature” “brama” it is a divine intelligence far beyond my comprehension, and yes I agree completely with your statement, if we are to prosper and be healthy it must be done in design with nature, as well I agree it is greed pushing the destruction of the earth.
@@roberttrout3588 In a country of free thoughts, stop oppressing it. That's not God's way is it? Every man comes his own way, for by chain or arms he stays away.
permaculture
Pretty sure you mean unsustainable rather than unsubstantial, my phone does that to me as well.
Synagro is owned by The Carlyle Group. They are trying to condemn as much farm land as possible.
Why am I not surprised at all? It’s always the same handful of usual suspects.
Every single time @@ashleylala4293
Sounds like. Something bill gates would be behind
Maybe, op
@@nelliesfarm8473
Wrong. Think more along the lines of Harvey Schwartz and Republican Glenn Youngkin, Blackstone, Goldman Sachs and the binLadens.
I just completed an agricultural study on this recently.. Under the FSMA rule; aged, composted and stored livestock manure is considered a micobial threat as a soil amendment before "treated" grade A biosolids from human and municipal waste (commercially available as an amendment) which can contain metals and pharmaceuticals or anything people discard.. These things pose a far greater threat and could even void organic and other food grade certifications.. The USDA actually approved this, yet contradicts itself. Back to the drawing board!
Sadly, this has & is being done all over the United States, where Sewage Treatment Plants extract the "SOLIDS" from the Liquids. Then they mix the Solids from Sewage with Green Waste a mixtures of wheat straw, plant material, corncob or sunflower stalk. Here in California the Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant is a sewage treatment plant in southwest Los Angeles, California, next to Dockweiler State Beach on Santa Monica Bay. The plant is the largest sewage treatment facility in the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area and one of the largest plants in the world. All the Sludge is trucked 100 Miles to Kern County to The Green Acres Biosolids Land Application Project consists of two interrelated "subsequent activities" in the City's on-going biosolids program transportation up to 800 tons of Sewage Sludge a Day, which the City Government Agency has given this TOXIC Sludge as a "Class A" biosolid. In which they are growing crops to Feed to Cattle. & We wonder why we don't feel good... JUST SICK!
Watch the movie "Dark Waters". How Dupont covered up PFOAs and their cancerous effects on humans and animals for 40- 50 years. They were finally banned, but not before the damage was done.
I hope there's far more than a gigantic lawsuit brewing.
You're wrong. Theres trillion dollar insurance policies guised as "companies" just to counter and lititgation until its forgotten. They don't fund the environmental industry. The whole country does their best to stiffle and suppress any accountability in any environmental crime
rich people never have to pay for what they do
shoutout capitalism!!
@@flipsterfloppa9065 Of course, they already formed a shell company to take the fall if it goes real south.
@@exhaustus7437 remember when purdue admitted that they wanted oxycontin to be abused because it was profitable, while also lying about it being abuse-proof and then not having to give up any of the money they made?
pepperidge farm remembers
Yea and look at Maine, same thing happend and now the government won't let the farmers use it as farm land anymore
And now they control YOUR food supply✌️
This may be an actual issue for all Americans across the US.
@@nm3547 yes it is going to be, im just saying its already starting in Maine and they are doing some nonsense in Oregon with market gardeners and water/livestock. They want to control everything
And if I'm not mistaken, the 'sludge' used to destroy the land was offered for free to farmers BY the state of Maine.
Perfect billybob microsoftius gateus strategy to steal farmland, reduce meat production, etc...
Maine is having the same issue. i saw a story about a farmer in Michigan that had PFAS on his land from a tannery. in the story they said that he would have to grow corn for like five years to remove the pfas, destroying the crops each year.
He should make fuel grade ethanol additive and destroy the biosolid. It still sets his land back 100's of years as his soil will be depleted by having to destroy the biosolids. The land will have to be remediated. but dirt farming is a lost art. Where the land is used to build soil quality as the product.
Leave it to corporate greed to turn our entire country into a super fund site.
and people say "its free market" or "you're just jealous because they are a successful company" and similar things defending unchecked, corrupt capitalism
Thats the goal! Dependent people are good money
What were seeing is a hybrid of socialism and internet capitalism.
@@AA-iy4gmThis is happening in communist & socialist countries, too, but sure, blame it all on capitalism 😂
@@AA-iy4gmit’s not “capitalism”. The same thing happens in communist China. 80-90% of chinas ground water is too polluted and is undrinkable. Greed and corruption isn’t unique to any one economic system and you can’t eliminate it by changing to another economic system. It’s human nature.
That will absolutely ruin the land. That company should be forced to pay for damage to neighbours and property cleanup. They made the mess.
Nah. Corporations can do whatever they wish. They own it all. The planet is their playground, and the people are their playing pieces. Pawns. 💪😎✌️
And 3M itself
@@Novastar.SaberCombat
Yeah, its a mess
Sadly almost an impossible task
Also sue the government for allowing this instead of having the waste incinerated.
They new it was poison they just wanted to dump the waste
In america, corpos bribe politicians so corpo can sell toxic waste to people trying to grow food.
Bastsrds.
The farmers wanted it because its cheaper. Typical boomers.
Joel Salatin look him up and watch. Greed has been destroying our land.
Excellent information from a man who lives what he teaches
I'm a 5th generation farmer and Joel is nothing but an ignorant windbag who is better at selling books and BS than actually producing food
The regulations should apply to those that manufacture the chemicals!
While the industry is working to transition: a good source of them is traditional gortex and gortex like materials. Plus the frying pan, honestly, I effing love my cast iron and carbon steel pans, they are the best, cast iron too heavy try carbon steel.
I was hoping for a mention of the benefits of proper REGULATION and accountability. 🙏
@@DaveE99 I didn't think they were planning on changing. I have to go to a Restaraunt Supply to get anything that isn't coated. Pricey, but mostly chemical free.
I've got a lot of cast iron. I'm getting older so some of it is a little heavy for me. Used to have Dutch ovens. Now it's skillets and griddles, lids and loaf pans. I don't have a problem with aluminum, but I prefer stainless steel.
And I've got 16" and 18" pizza pans. The 16" fit in my oven. The 18" is for my grill for pizza and fermenting tea leaves.
@@SandcastleDreams why I can sympathize, with growing older, I will also point out from a hermetic stressor point of view, my mom complained my 17” cast iron pan was too heavy, and note, I’ve seen her pick it up the same way I have when she wants to. And my response: that is exactly why you need to be using them. Cuz a mechanics arms aren’t jacked because he hits the gym, they are jacked because of repetition of movements, ie. Volume=weightxreps. So increase either of those and it’s a key driver of good hermetic stress on the body. And I’m not saying everything’s easy or just do x, I’m just pointing out a slight mindset shift that can make the experience of the struggle a little better.
@@SandcastleDreams I did read recently read that vortex had been working on an alternative but they aware of the pressure supposedly it’s been in the work for 10 years
If it's in Ft Worth waste water sludge, then it in all of the other Waste water treatment plants sludge as well. Dallas, Arlington, Denton, Midlothian Mansfield, and so on.
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May be all over Texas
I'm from Flint Michigan and we have been dealing with the same problem for atleast 5years. Everyone living around airports have PFAS in their soil and even septic tanks because the fire stations practice with foam that has PSAF in it....
@@abdulrahmanraheem423 👀 who regulates how and where they are disposing their material?
@@nm3547 its all over the coubtry, it aint jus in tx that pfas are ysed
@nm3547 it's not regulated! The fire dptm used it for training purposes and they never cleaned up, so the product seeped into the soil, and by way of the sewers, and into septic tanks and killed live stock...and recently home/farmers have discovered they have cancer and other ailments....it's been Michigan news since 2019..!
You know it’s really bad when Texas ranchers say that regulations needs to be in place to protect people
Makes perfect sense. King County, WA is doing the same thing through a company called Loop. They truck it all through the state to make sure the PFAS get well distributed across farms.
Yes, i pass the loop trucks often on I-90 Snoqualmie pass. Change the "L" in loop to a "P" and thats what ends up sprayed everywhere
Same with Tagro in tacoma. They give it away free to cattle farms and anyone who tried to talk about this 5 years ago was labeled a crazy right wing conspiracy theorist and silenced by the tolerant left.
Its almost like a plan to get these farms turned into superfund sites so we all have to eat vat grown soy worms or something
Sadly, this has & is being done all over the United States, where Sewage Treatment Plants extract the "SOLIDS" from the Liquids. Then they mix the Solids from Sewage with Green Waste a mixtures of wheat straw, plant material, corncob or sunflower stalk. Here in California the Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant is a sewage treatment plant in southwest Los Angeles, California, next to Dockweiler State Beach on Santa Monica Bay. The plant is the largest sewage treatment facility in the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area and one of the largest plants in the world. All the Sludge is trucked 100 Miles to Kern County to The Green Acres Biosolids Land Application Project consists of two interrelated "subsequent activities" in the City's on-going biosolids program transportation up to 800 tons of Sewage Sludge a Day, which the City Government Agency has given this TOXIC Sludge as a "Class A" biosolid. In which they are growing crops to Feed to Cattle. & We wonder why we don't feel good... JUST SICK!
It is crazy.
Any one saying they are shocked is really just turning a blind eye, it only matters to them when they get affected. We have known about these chemicals for over 40yrs but profits, lobbying, campaign contributions over the public health.
Ranchers are complicit polluters. Canoeing the Little Wichita River in 1987 I came upon several five gallon cans of dimetholate with lids off at different stages of sinking. The odor of the chemical was strong enough to detect several hundred yards downstream from the dump site. Ranchers are well aware of and active participants in polluting the lands and waterways they work and live on and around.
Not all ranchers...
Thats like saying all black people are bad. Dont stereotype.
@@ColdWarVeteran-r2j Show me where I said ALL.
@@fluxfazelazy habits and selfish people always ruin it for everyone. Might be a farm hand not delivering the waste to the correct site for treatment. I have seen trash dumped in far dark corners in every city and town I have ever been to all over the world. Even if all good people did the right thing, always a few that won't, don't, or worse apathetic to their actions. True nihilist.
@@ColdWarVeteran-r2jshut up
@@fluxfaze "Ranchers" plural
Why don't we just name it TEFLON
That's only one form of PFAS and Scotchguard and many other products. When it gets out that a non-stick chemical is toxic, they tweak the molecules of the chemical into one that is slightly different so that they can name it something elsel. It's still toxic, but it takes a while for the science to prove it. They've played that game for years.
PFAS is actually a plural for an entire class of chemicals that have non-stick properties. Only now are they considering outlawing ALL chemicals in this class. But, great damage has already been done from decades of its use. It's everywhere in our homes in countless products and in our environment because these greedy corporations such as 3M and Dupont have kept the truth surpressed. We're all contaminated with high levels of PFAS because it bioaccumulates. How do you think such high levels got into the human sewage that was used to create the fertilizer that contaminated this man's farm.
Because it's more than one product. It's hundreds
Because Teflon is only one PFAA source.
...because the stuff is now in a lot more products than just Teflon.
Teflon was the original, but there are other molecules that are slightly diff, but act the same. This garbage is in our food packaging, toilet paper, clothes, carpets, furniture, IN OUR FRIGGIN DENTAL FLOSS! America is such a jokebcoubtry
And people still want less regulations for these corrupt corporations🤦♂️
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Yep. "Regulations are hurting business", only the businesses that want to pollute.
Tyson Chicken just got caught dumping tons of wastewater in a river, but the EPA still hasn't recovered from the cuts and deregulations inflicted in the Trump administration. They can't protect us if they can't do their jobs.
Thats america, where companies like 3M poison the land, furst, and then, MAYBE, EVENTUALLY, the gov will later sayvthey cant do that afterwards
The corporations want less regulation. They work really hard to convince people that they should agree with them.
No we want less regulations on small business. They need to separate the big from small business.
How is this going on nationwide undetected.
Where are the authorities?
Did they all sell they're souls!
Yes cuz they are the devil the bible speaks of
Yep. Those who don't have to try make very, very small changes at best or they will find themselves unemployed.
@@strawpiglet yep, why rock the boat and risk your pension
They are all on Instagram talking about their sexuality and how woke they are.
Yes. Even trump is a sellout. They’re all the same. Only form of government that actually works is monarchy
That's why we need to ban plastic products.
Dallas area cities touted this stuff. People put it on home gardens. It’s by design folks, not ignorance.
Truth! Agenda 21 and the UNs sustainability agenda programs at work.
Truth
This is happening all across the country. So very sad.
Industrialized farming has tried to cheat the processes. If we try to stack natural design and become a contributor, she rewards it. The reality is monocropping destroys the soil and reduces vegetations ability to mitigate Co2, it also kills beneficial organisms that promote plant growth and increase in yields. Farm subsidies for dead end industries is like taking loans to pay welfare. Its not sustainable or resilient.
This is what happens when you don’t have good regulation. My dad used to work as an inspector in the uk and one of his regular jobs was assessing municipal waste composting sites. They had to have testing done of their output on a regular basis to make sure no harmful chemicals were making it through their systems. You can’t just leave this stuff to change or people’s lives get ruined
If the chemical isn't considered harmful by his employer, then it doesn't matter what's done.
@@camojoe83companies cannot set their own standard of safety when it comes to chemicals they use. Don't be silly.
Synagro needs be put out of business. Corporations only care about profits, they don't care who dies as long as the Corp., profits. If we know anything by now we should know that!
That won't do much now. The damage is done. There should be more testing before products hit the market. They need to go after everybody that let this happen.
Synagro: "Oh we had no idea! The TCEQ said we could sell you poison so we did!"
I asked my grandfather if I should be a farmer back in the early 70's.
He replied, "No, you have to use too much poison nowadays. It's not right."
Look at central Illinois farm land. Cancer there has went up big time over last 27 years
Do they use it too? Very curious..I once lived around there many years ago
What's going on with it?
Has _gone._ Not has “went.”
why hasn't the national news picked this up?! this is awful!
National news should not make people think.
This has been in the news before. It has happened to farmers on the East Coast.
I heard this on NPR news long ago. Which news outlet are you referring to as "national news"?
We have known that for a long time. Putting sewage waste on crops is criminal.
DUUUUUUHHHHHH- starting in the late 80s, everybody was touting municipal sludge as a nutrient source for farms across the country --IT ONLY TAKES A MINUTE to think about the chemicals that YOU pour down the drain-not to mention businesses and industry--WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND
Yes! That has always been my concern with the stuff, even before PFAS became an issue.
And they said Flint Michigans water was safe to drink
And still not fixed!!!!!!!😢😢😢
Oh c’mon! Obama took a drink of it. That MFer just BARELY touched his lips to the glass.
Technically it is safe to drink at the treatment plant. the chemistry of the water causes it to dissolve the lead in the ancient infrastructure and old houses and then it looks like the water's not safe. But it's just because people are too lazy to replace plumbing in their houses 80% of the time. Learn stuff.
@@camojoe83 at one time cigarettes were good for you and pregnant women needed should smoke twice a day. In the 1990s Opioids we’re given out to everyone that wanted them and were told they were completely safe with no long term side effect, now we have a Opioid epidemic. The Tuskegee Experiment were said to be safe and they were helping people. Don’t be naive
@@DV-ol7vt no, it's simple chemistry that ruined flint's water. They cheaped out on the water treatment setup when they rebuilt it and it dissolved the old pipes that used to work fine with the previous chemistry of the water.
I didn't say they weren't responsible, but it's never been because the source water was too contaminated. People simplify it too much, they should know how the entire infrastructure in places like that is very interdependent and it's not so simple to say "the water's bad" like it actually is. The pipes are bad. The water just, is water.
Water from wells around chemical plants and brine injection wells is "unsafe water". It starts out that way and doesn't get better. Flint's water is fine till it runs thru 200 year old lead pipes. There's a difference.
Not just PFAs but pharmaceuticals, antibiotics, heavy metals, microplastics ...
There’s a place in SoCal called Inland Empire regional compost facility. They sell fertilizer made from human waste. I wonder if this is the same?
It’s never the makers fault just the consumer’s fault.
Caveat Emptor and Laze Faire
Forever chemicals have been a well known, huge problem out here in North Carolina for decades. Welcome to the club. They're in everything now. Water. Soil. Never going away.
We have no real guidelines what is a safe or unsafe level of them. Are they actually bad for us? We have no idea.
What makes you think that there is zero information on the heath effects? Like did you look and give up when you didn’t find anything, or?
Pfas is a massive problem in Michigan
Owned by Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking division.
Every Single Time
So they fought against regulations, regulations were repealed, and now they want to complain. They were told
Really need a wakeup and start using crop rotation and regenarative growing. Farmers are using more and more fertilizer to grow the same yield because the soil microbiology is dying off causing a lower intake of nutrients by crops. Farms are being turned into deserts which hold less water and allow for more nutrient runoff leading to algae blooms and dead zones in waterways.
Hopefully it brings awareness to the pfas that are so bad for us
Anytime someone wants less regulations this is the results
Just watched a documentary on this subject. Scary stuff, expect cancers and diseases for the future.
Those chemicals get into the food if the animals and plants are exposed.
What about water going to water ways????fish and deer and other animals too.
They just need to plant sunflowers for a few years to clean the soil....
Nature already has provided us solutions to this unfortunate mess.....
Sounds good but sunflowers ain't gonna cut it. The biomass would have to be sequestered like nuclear waste or burned.
December 2024?!?! Government will let the company sell for another 7 months before a recommendation....wooooooow!
This same sludge is being used in rural northeast Alabama... people can't even brrathe outside their homes becaythe smell is so strong.
What did u think would happen? Bill gates did the same thing in Africa.
Sounds like some conspiracy BS. Fact is these entities are fully connected to Republican policy makers.
I’m so glad I raise my own beef, chicken, pork, and vegetables on my own land
Well, maybe conservative Texas should vote for a party that protects the environment. 🤷♀️
Takes the concept of who's liberal and conservative and flips it on its head.
Should we still be mad at regulations?
They're finally understanding the peoblem. Cause its impacting them. Glad yall see why pesticides are bad. Many farmers spray glyco on the grass the cows eat too. Its a huge chemical system in food these days.
Your late to the party if you believe they are finally understanding the problem
@@nesq4104 how do you know I'm late. I been here homie. What do you even mean by this comment. Like seriously. Expand.
@@nesq4104btw it's * you're 🙄
@@jul.escobar late to the party being- they have known about this contamination problem for many decades
@@nesq4104 first you said I was late, now you're saying they're late. Do you think you're the only one who recognized it or... What? Cause I've been fighting against it a long time. I'm not sure why you're trying to feel smart here.
Save Our Planet Now!
And we wonder what’s causing cancer, autism, dementia, Alzheimer’s…
...autoimmune diseases, type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome...
@@monte68xyep I've thyroid disease because my area is heavily contaminated with PFAS
@@seanscope5455 get some Uristat tablets for urinary infections and bladder relief that contain iodine. Take one dose each week. It helps jumpstart the thyroid and causes it to fix itself with the iodine. The body needs it but nobody ever tells us to take iodine for thyroid problems but it works and you can Google it. And it’s at every pharmacy everywhere.
Genetics. Autism.& autoimmune disorders follow families. Not caused by outside sources.
@@donwyoming1936before dupont and etc started dumping Pfas in the water nobody had diseases and stuff
EPA is incapable of doing their job. They'd rather regulate trucks out of existence.
Part of the way the chemicals get in the wastewater in the first place is from rain water going through car tires and washing the chemicals from it into drains. So car TIRE regulation at least will actually help
Congrats! You are the exact outcome corporation want. You have no clue as to the history of PFAS, how they were hidden from government and consumers, and how corporations are now using restriction placed on the EPA in the past from being able to regulate PFAS now. Good job idiot.
When half of their budget comes from the corporations they are supposed to regulate then this is the outcome. We need to get rid of Citizens United, we need to find the IRS and all federal agencies responsible for enforcing regulations. The only reason govt is ineffective is because their donors/owners want it that way.
@el_chavez
Citizens United was the castration of our power. The irony of the case name is beyond galling!
It's so sad that it got so little attention then and is nearly forgotten now!
The SCOTUS and its rulings are the key to most of this insanity!
NO......TEXAS is incapable of doing ITS JOB to PROTECT the CITIZENS
that's TEXARSE, not the EPA
they WANT no regulations, THEY GOT IT
A hundred years ago , using biolsolids as fertiliser would have been viable . But now treated sewage just serves to concentrate PFAS , rendering those biosolids to nothing more than chemical waste . Just look at water quality issues at multiple airbases for the negative health factors of PFAS contamination.
The city will have to find alternative methods for disposal of sewage treatment residues , and compensate this farmer and others in the vicinity for this exposure to known chemical contaminants.
Human waste has *NEVER* been a viable fertilizer for crops to feed... Humans.
Grow a fkn brain.
And back then we weren't dumping antibiotics, industrial chemicals or radioactive medical waste into our sewage systems.
Think of all the medications prescribed or illegal , that flow through the sewage system , some of these facilities make bottled water
Seriously, think about it, it’s not just PFAS either, hormone disruption from birth control is another, antibiotics, so many prescription drugs are going into this offal.
And isotopes from radiation treatments too
Gee, maybe if there was some regulations...
Thank your Republican lawmakers for stripping regulations.
Corporate profits over people. Ask yourself who wants deregulation and who wants regulations for corporations? Who has your best interest and livelihood as priority? The big bad government or corporations?
Keep voting for Chump! He rolled back both the Clean Water Act and Clean Air Act! Allowing polluters (Big Corpo) to not even have to report pollution…
Since when does anyone expect the state of Texas to care one iota about the environment? Texas people and government are all about do whatever you want; no regulation; no taxes; no shared power grid; do your own thing; don't tread on me. Notice the lady speaking has a pistol on her hip in a government meeting. This whole attitude is ripe for lots of problems.
There's more to this than we know, something is being added
This is happening all over the country 🤔
Sadly, this has & is being done all over the United States, where Sewage Treatment Plants extract the "SOLIDS" from the Liquids. Then they mix the Solids from Sewage with Green Waste a mixtures of wheat straw, plant material, corncob or sunflower stalk. Here in California the Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant is a sewage treatment plant in southwest Los Angeles, California, next to Dockweiler State Beach on Santa Monica Bay. The plant is the largest sewage treatment facility in the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area and one of the largest plants in the world. All the Sludge is trucked 100 Miles to Kern County to The Green Acres Biosolids Land Application Project consists of two interrelated "subsequent activities" in the City's on-going biosolids program transportation up to 800 tons of Sewage Sludge a Day, which the City Government Agency has given this TOXIC Sludge as a "Class A" biosolid. In which they are growing crops to Feed to Cattle. & We wonder why we don't feel good... JUST SICK!
This was happening with compost a couple of years ago. Dozens of homesteads were affected
In Bagged manure - black kow was the brand I remember. A couple big youtube homesteading channels were hit bad: Deep South Homestead, Roots and Refuge, and Homestead Heart just got it this year, a few weeks ago.
@@classicrocklover5615 no loss. Attention seeking on the internet has it's pitfalls. They could have built up their own organics with a little bit of time, but since they need the attention and money now, they took shortcuts and ruined everything for themselves.
Bummer, huh? But at least people clicked on their videos.
Sewage waste is in pretty much all the bags of top soil and compost available at the big box stores. It was very frustrating when I went looking for stuff for a friend’s vegetable garden. Is that what they used?
That's profit before people capitalism baby. For some reason most United States citizens will defend it to their last breath on a ventilator. Sad.
They have the same problem in UK.
I am not a fan of John Kerry or his wife, but they were warning against the use of "Biosolid" fertilizers from wastewater treatment plants 17+yrs ago. They went so far as to say it would contaminate and ruin farmland. I got to give credit where due
Swiftboated by Big Ag, et al
Hey Goldman Sachs owns Synagro. Who'd have thought.
Poisoning wells everywhere
I used to work for a landscaper and that is what my boss used for composting gardens in large wealthy neighborhoods. We would find wrappers from a prison commissary in with the product.
Terrifying.
Texas ranchers vote for politicians who want to eliminate the EPA, but at least they have their guns to keep them safe.
Exactly lol I got no sympathy for these idiots. Reap what you sow.
This Texan wants the FDA and the EPA to do their job and keep us safe and stop looking the other way, And stop taking money from big agriculture and big pharma.
So vote for the commies that want both there guns and land? The corrupt government that already illegally dumps waste will clean that up right away. 44 tons of ddt dumped in the ocean of California in-between Catalina by the government in one moment. But yeah big daddy fed will fix everything
EPA does nothing
@@jeffjohnson1302The EPA doesn’t do as much as it should because politicians keep trying to destroy it. Trump appointed a head of the EPA who very publicly said it was his job to shut it down and he succeeded in doing a huge amount of damage. If you elect a couple of presidents in a row who support the EPA, it will get cleaned up and get its teeth back.
This is the beauty of no regulations.
Didn’t the same thing happen in Maine? They used these forever and now unable to farm their lands…
It’s in our foods in our plastic bottles and containers, nonstick pans.
How ya liking our FDA and other 3 letter agencies?
Maine and Michigan.
Last administration let go of all the scientists and engineers who were experts and said the companies were capable of doing there own monitoring and there own research could set the safety standards. They put the lobbyists who represent them in charge of the agency's and report and decide what is safe. They got rid of all the regulations that were in place and said it would cost them to much to comply. Meanwhile they're making more money than they ever had and making even more billions! They are the same ones who are invested in the drug industry, health insurance and services and transportation services .The current administration put the regulations back in place but the current Congress won't give funding to return the agency's with the experts who were involved in keeping us safe.Sadly they own all the media and propagandists don't allow facts to reach the people😢😢.
@@d.l.shanahan1220 nah, I don’t think so…you’ve got that backwards but to tell you isn’t enough so I guess you really should research that it’s this administration that wasn’t everything to come from elsewhere not the United states…farm land , gates, beef gates vaccines gates, green energy gates. Been in the energy industry for decades and can see how it works, you’re being scammed
GOP always pushes "less govt" and limits the agencies we need to battle corporate pollution. Without regulations corporate policy is to make profit - by any means.
@@d.l.shanahan1220 Those were the bought and paid for "experts" who weren't doing their job. Deregulating was justified if they weren't doing their job.
I just have to ask an obvious question here: Milwaukee has been doing this for decades, it’s called Milorganite, you can buy it at any home store. Golf courses love it and I e used it for years because it’s cheap and effective. I have to ask in this case is it the actual waste or is this company mixing the waste with something else that is causing the contamination. You can’t have chemicals in this that have not been excreted from a human body, if all these chemicals cause cancer, what does that say about or food sources?!?!?
That's the reason you aren't allowed to use it for organic crops, along with GMOs and synthetic pesticides. Those are the big three for organic certification. Maybe the people who created that knew what they were doing.
There are a lot of chemicals that get washed down the drain in homes and businesses and those go into the sewage sludge too. Does Milorganite have some special process to keep that from happening?
We're allowed to shut down farms but not Walmart?!
Totally different situation
@@armeniansdoitbetterNot really - that is how the PFAS enters our bodies - Walmart and the other big chains are responsible for poisoning our products or at minimum supplying us poisoned products.
Wht?
Huh? Are you MAGA and confused? Seek medical help
The majority of the food sold at Walmart has dangerous levels of poison in them. Thought that was common knowledge..
All the sick people will need constant medical care and short lives. Money money money.
The lack of responsibility from these big corporations and government is absolutely astounding. The majority of other developed world countries have strict regulations on PFAS when it comes to environment and human health but US has been dragging the issue for ever on this one…..no wonder our drinking water is PFAS contaminated in all 50 states as well.
Us is such a joke coubtry. Corporate wasteland
the folks who profited from these chemicals should have to pay back every penny he put into that land, and they also owe the american people all the meat and fish that farm would have produced.
they could spend their money researching new crops with enzymes that might stand a chance to decompose these chemicals. but instead they devise schemes to make average working americans use human waste as fertilizer, schemes to pyrolyze everything into more oil, and schemes to put the waste biochar into the food too.
Don’t worry, the Republican supermajority in the TX legislator won’t do a thing to fix it or help.
Fact.Trumps Dereglation .Thank the Repug,s
oh please
@@pingpongpaddlehead please enlighten us as to what the Republican Supermajority the TX legislator has had for the last 20 years in the state has done for environmental protection.
@@jmp6951 oh im sure its a left vs right issue just like you think and has nothing to do with big interests.
Oh, I'm sure Branded Hairaira will make a big change.. just put his ego in the capital, everything will change
This is terrible. RFK JR has been talking about theese issues as part of his campaign. Our food industries are poisoning us. -
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@@PhilipPedro2112 childish response. And if you did your research on brain worms and actually what happened and what was said and what medical experts say. Brain worm wouldn't have as much hold on you as it currently does.
🎼🎵In the year 2525🎶 if man is still alive 🎵
The problem is the ease with which private interests can manipulate government oversight agencies. USDA is a joke, owned and managed by a few big ag and food producing companies.
The joke is that our government agencies are being taken over by Republicans bought and payed for by soulless corporations.
Ruining the land and the animals!
on purpose
When money matters most to a few the majority will suffer.
Beware of biochar from bioremediation/superfund sites. Just verify where the biochar comes from if you plan on using it. Grasses and trees may be used for cleaning heavy metals from polluted soil in the process of bioaccumulation.
Imagine not being able to supply your own charcoal.
Pathetic.
THERE’S SOMETHING IN THE WATER!!!!!
I've used milorganite for years. This is very disappointing but the real blame lies with the originator of these chemicals and not the sewage treatment plant.
This is why ive always avoided milorganite. They cant get rid of low level drugs or synthetic substances that people consume. I dont know what ultra low levels of antibiotics, anidepressants, or blood pressure medicine would do to plants.
I don't really see or hear people blaming tge sewage treatment plants. We know it's the remediation companies who process the sludge. It wouldn't surprise me if I find out the same corporate groups own them both (and the water plants) though.
Many farms in the state of Maine are faced with the same problem. They will not be allowed to plant crops. There should be outrage from all of us as we have consumed food tainted with these "forever chemicals" for decades
Father we thank you for your hand upon these farmers and ranchers for Supernatural Turnaround and Miraculous breakthrough in this situation that there land would be healed an restored. In Jesus name we declare an decree Your Hand upon this in Jesus name
It's not going to happen. It is all ruined.
You can't just pray for what you want. He says to pray in His NAME. His name is not declaring a word or verbal name, it's praying in His WILL. "When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures" (James 4:13). God's name is His will and purpose. When you pray in His true name, you are rending your heart to what HE wants, so ofc He will give you what you ask for. What you are doing is declaring a verbal name in your will. That is shallow and counterfeit. God sent this. He is sovereign over ALL things. He's not fighting some external power to Him! He uses satan to break us down and cause us to return to Him. If you don't understand that, you won't know what to do and you will pray meaningless prayers in your own name, claiming to lift them in the name of Jesus. This is counterfeit Christian behavior.
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Amen!
Amen!