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From: "AllEmailDeletedImmediately" <der...@hotmail.com>

Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 15:09:38 GMT

Local: Wed, Sep 20 2006 2:09 am

Subject: Re: Produce Is Growing Source of Food Illness

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"John A. Weeks III" <j...@johnweeks.com> wrote in message
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> In article <AJQPg.6453$uj3.1639@trnddc08>,
> "AllEmailDeletedImmediately" <der...@hotmail.com> wrote:

>> "Dave Bugg" <davebu...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:iRFPg.49$_h1.26@newsfe04.lga...
>> > AllEmailDeletedImmediately wrote:

>> >> well perhaps the thermostat was wrong for one batch? who'd know?

>> > And your mom might have forgotten to wash her hands after doing #2 and
>> > handling raw chicken prior to making your peanut butter sandwich. Who'd
>> > know?

>> exactly. that still doesn't mean it's okay to spread any form of human
>> waste on crops.

> Check out the website for Metrogro, the Madison, Wisconsin,
> Metro Sewer System. They take the output product from the
> sewer system, called "bio solids", and truck them to farms
> all over Dane County for spreading on farm fields. They have
> been doing this since the early 1980's that I know of, and
> it doesn't seem to have created any problems that I have
> heard of.

then perhaps we should start bio-soliding dog and cat crap. yum.

i'm not a farmer, but i come from a long line of them. here it is:

first rule: never fertilize w/ the poopy of any meat-eating animal.
second rule: always allow the poopy from vegetation-eating
animals to compost before using it.

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