Re: Sterilizing the manure

[Leigh Meyers <leighcmeyers@xxxxxxxxx>]

If you go down by Moss Landing California, South of Watsonville,
you'll see Modesto@MossLanding all the way inland to 101 (Dolan Rd.)
with cattle pens situated within spitting distance of crops like
lettuce, cabbage and Strawberries. All crops which suck at  the water
table like the godess's own sore tit.

The water table itself may be permanently contaminated, and they ain't
gonna tell you, even if it's true. Flowers could be grown on these
lots safely, but the profit margin on Lettuce and Strawberries is
quite a bit higher and allow the ag companies to invest some of their
earnings into the the graft structure built into the food inspection
system of the United States Department of Agriculture.

My coffee water boiling pot used to get residual crusts of varying
color and thickness depending on which fertilizer the local agbiz
companies had been using lately when I lived out by the Murphy's
Crossing worker(slave) camp, and e coli blooms in local drinking water
wells is quite common.

But that's ok, only fieldhands live out by the fields, and since the
UFW helped make it safer for fieldhands by enforcing the rules in
regard to when workers are not allowed in the fields due to pesticide
spraying or other safety issues, the agbiz has progressively worked on
poisoning them at home and at school by busting the distance barrier
between where it's legal to spray and human habitation (Mexican humans
that is.)

Unsterilized manure (which BTW Travus T. Hipp mentioned on September
18, almost a month ago,

[September 18 2006] Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Ups For
Organic Food? Good News In The Bad News On Spinach And E Coli: It's
Probably Not The Aquifier, But It Might Be Contaminated Commercial
Fertilizer <http://leighm.net/blog/?p=662>

affects everyone, but hit the bougie  "organic" consumer (That means
well-to-do  "progressives", "radicals" and liberals)who thought
organic means safe, and without harm to animals and braceros, and all
that other removed-from-reality kindergarten crap, the hardest.

Fuck them, for every time they think it's their government's job to
protect them specifically, and a big shout-out fuck you to the FDA and
the Department of Agribusiness.
Oh yeah, and fuck the NY Times for quoting Wendell Berry.

They should be quoting: Ecodefense: A Field Guide to Monkey wrenching
<http://www.omnipresence.mahost.org/inttxt.htm>

...if they REALLY wanted to present a solution.

Leigh
http://www.leighm.net


On 10/15/06, Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> NY Times Magazine, October 15, 2006
> The Way We Live Now
> The Vegetable-Industrial Complex
> By MICHAEL POLLAN


> Wendell Berry once wrote that when we took
animals off farms and put them onto feedlots, we
had, in effect, taken an old solution â the one
where crops feed animals and animals' waste feeds
crops â and neatly divided it into two new
problems: a fertility problem on the farm, and a
pollution problem on the feedlot. Rather than
return to that elegant solution, however,
industrial agriculture came up with a
technological fix for the first problem â
chemical fertilizers on the farm. As yet, there
is no good fix for the second problem, unless you
count irradiation and Haccp plans and overcooking
your burgers and, now, staying away from spinach.
All of these solutions treat E. coli 0157:H7 as
an unavoidable fact of life rather than what it
is: a fact of industrial agriculture.

But if industrial farming gave us this bug, it is
industrial eating that has spread it far and
wide. We don't yet know exactly what happened in
the case of the spinach washed and packed by
Natural Selection Foods, whether it was
contaminated in the field or in the processing
plant or if perhaps the sealed bags made a
trivial contamination worse. But we do know that
a great deal of spinach from a great many fields
gets mixed together in the water at that plant,
giving microbes from a single field an
opportunity to contaminate a vast amount of food.