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.
Federal regulation of pesticides is inadequate and has failed to investigate any hazards of their use in combination. Farmers are at a 50% higher risk for Parkinson’s Disease than the rest of the population.
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.
Monsanto ghostwrote the “science,” leading farmers to ignore safety precautions and consumers to eat much more of the toxic weedkiller glyphosate than is safe. Except we don’t know how much, if any, is safe, because so much of the “science” was manufactured by Monsanto.
The seizure of farmland for government or businesses purposes has increased since 2005.
The United States, the world’s largest food exporter, imports a huge amount of the food Americans eat.
On CHD-TV, Meryl Nass makes the case for Thomas Massie’s PRIME Act and mandatory Country of Origin Labeling to restore local beef access.