Sludge in the Garden
by Mike Krumboltz
4 hours ago
1,816 Votes
New homes are full of questions and possibilities. What color to paint the walls? How to arrange the furniture? What to plant in the garden? The Obama family must have asked a lot of those same questions when they moved into the White House. However, the first lady’s dreams of growing an organic vegetable garden have been dragged down by a previous resident that refuses to leave: sludge.
Various sources within the Buzz are reporting that Michelle Obama’s organic garden has been besieged by icky goo in the ground. As a result, the veggies aren’t quite what the first lady had in mind. According to Daily Finance, the National Park Service tested the soil in the vegetable patch and found highly elevated levels of lead due to sewage used as fertilizer.
So the question is: Who to blame? While dumping sewage into the ground sounds like a crime worthy of Mr. Burns from The Simpsons, the actual perpetrators were none other than the Clintons.
Comments
Bill was peeing in the bushes.
Where did the Clintons get sewage?
It was a conspiracy, Hillary hoped she could take out the competition with that sludge!
James Brown? Wookie? Hybrid? What are you talking about? Your question is lame and unfunny. Nice try. Poor delievery. The end.
Who is to blame? The federal and state administrative agencies who have allowed the use of sewage sludge as fertilizer are to blame, and this practice has been going on for a number of administrations. There must be some powerful vested interests making a lot of money from the sale of that sludge/saving on the cost of alternative disposal.
The stuff is used as fertilizer on farmer’s fields. How many percentage points of our GDP are paying for treating the health affects of using this stuff to grow our fruits and vegetables?
