In this CHD-TV special, Laura Orlando and Meryl Nass expose how treated sewer sludge — so-called biosolids — packed with PFAS and other hazardous chemicals is being spread on farmland and bagged for retail, all while oversight remains weak and public health is at risk.
John Klar and Meryl Nass talk about how food policy is quietly crushing small farmers — and why fixing local meat processing could lower prices, improve health, and strengthen food security.
Despite two federal courts banning Dicamba, EPA is trying to bring it back.
Sewage sludge, rebranded as “biosolids,” has been spread on more than 70 million acres of U.S. farmland, carrying toxic PFAS chemicals into soil, water, and food. After the EPA’s draft report confirmed PFAS are hazardous and likely carcinogenic, Section 507 appeared in both House and Senate appropriations bills to halt the report and block new…
On Substack, Helen Freeman argues that ethical eating isn’t about perfection or lifestyle branding — it’s about making small, repeatable choices that work within real constraints.
In a 2012 New York Times column, Nicholas Kristof revealed that factory-farmed poultry is on more meds than you are — raising serious questions about food safety and the true costs of cheap meat.
The seizure of farmland for government or businesses purposes has increased since 2005.