When First Lady Michelle Obama planted an organic vegetable garden on the White House lawn in March 2009, she hoped to both set an example of healthy eating and to grow tasty edibles for her daughters and husband. But Michelle’s organic dream has been dashed by a nasty toxic legacy lurking in the soils of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. It turns out that a previous Presidential gardening team had used sewage sludge for fertilizer.
This is a fairly common practice with one huge problem. Sewage sludge tends to be laced with anything that people pour down the drain and often contains heavy metals. Not surprisingly, the National Park Service tested the dirt beneath Michelle’s garden and found the plot has highly elevated levels of lead averaging 93 parts per million. That’s below the 400 ppm that the Environmental Protection Agency says is a threat to human health. But I’d wager that Sasha, Malia and Barack won’t be getting arugula or tomatoes from this garden any time soon.
http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/07/30/michelle-obamas-toxic-veggie-nightmare-white-house-organic-gar/
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Excellet Anology!
Semper Fi
Right on man.
This is just one more example of how this presidency behaves. Jump before looking.
figures a freaking garden would be turned into a political issue that’s the problem with Obama his so about being the great Messiah he just ticks off everyone in the process.
haha obama’s garden of pig feces.
Will you be eating from the garden? what are you worried about? glad the matter was caught. It could have happened to anyone even you.
I can’t believe it.. You mean Bush even fuggged up the white house lawn ?? I know he said we wouldn’t reduced the lead poison content numbers because it was too expensive..But to KNOWINGLY allow the Pinnacle and Jewel of the United States to be a toxic dump,,that’s despicable !! And then Bush Cheney left the White House as the Richest President and Vice President in the History of the Presidencies !! They took the Rich and Big Business right with them !! They are now FILTHY Rich too.. Its shows you how the ”’MASSURE took care of the plantation !! Common Folk just wanted to set an example of a simple garden,,and Bush left the Obama team,,ANOTHER ;””BUSH LEGACY!! What will we the people find if we continue to look deep into the DARKNESS of the BUSH DYNASTY ?? L H
They should have planted a cotton field - then obama would have something constructive to do.
I will guarantee that more produce has come from the Obama’s garden than with BO’s policies!
Pretty much the same thing.. just shows that you really should know how to do a job, not just be elected for it.
