Recycling gone overboard

Recycling gone overboard I am all for recycling but this might be taking it a little too far& Do you want to talk sustainalbity well who needs good old cow manure when human waste is available? In California (of course it had to be) farmers are now using treated sewage waste from big cities as fertilizer, and while some farmers are tickled with the benefits of rich tithly soil, others are turning their noses up at using sewage, fearing consumer fall out. Of course for LA and other cities it's a win- win, they can dump their lump of up to 450,000 tons of treated sewage a year on the other side of the mountains out of site and mind. Farmers then use the sludge to improve soil for cattle and fiber but supposedly not any produce directly consumed by consumers, yea right! The opposition is heating up and there is now a bill being sponsored to stop what one senator calls a wealthy industrial area dumping on rural poor farm country. Hey where all Hollywood eco-activists on this one I'm Susan Allen and this is Food Forethought. Source: Wenatchee World Sunday May 1 2005