Biosolids: What they are and how they find their way into your foods.

Biosolids: a word on the post below that is described as “not in organics”.  So I looked into this word and promptly ran to the bathroom, (ugh).

Quite simply, it’s sewage turned into a “fertilizer” for crops. According to SourceWatch:

Biosolids is the Orwellian PR euphemism for toxic sewage sludge. The name was created and chosen in a PR contest by the lobby association for sewage industry, the Water Environment Federation (WEF). There is now a SourceWatch Portal on “Biosolids”

Beginning in the 1990’s the WEF, with the active encouragement and approval of the Environmental Protection Agency, pushed for the disposal of sewage sludge on farm land after bans were imposed on dumping it in the ocean or incinerating it. The name change of sewage sludge to “biosolids” was crucial the image makeover for sewage sludge, a classic industry-government campaign of greenwashing to change the public perception of toxic sewage sludge from an accurate one of “hazardous waste” to the misleading image of biosolids representing safe “beneficial reuse,” responsible “recycling” and healthy “organic fertilizer,” lately including the ruse of sewage sludge as “organic compost.”