Michelle Obama's toxic veggie nightmare: White House organic garden polluted with sludge
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.
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8 comments:
Does anyone honestly believe Michelle Obama every planted anything but hate for America.
Anything she might have done in that garden was for a photo opp only.
Maybe her mere presence near the garden was enough to kill the plants.
On on the subject of someone putting sludge on the previous presidents garden, maybe that is why he was full of donkey dust.
Im sure the chefs are thrilled when the first ladies interfere with the menu. Can you believe at the beer summit the only appetizers(spl) they had were nuts. No oysters rock, clam casino or even wings. Thats bad.
Whoooo Cares?
You reap what you sow!
What is wrong with you people? Do you wake up in the morning with a nasty disposition and just go downhill from there?
I hope Joe finds a away of assigning a screen name to the anonymous posters here, so that we can track the Christian values of people like you in your posts.
djh seriously? I could make up 100 different IDs and you would never be able to tell who I was. Just because you use 3 letters as a name really means nothing.
Just because the soil has 93ppm doesn't mean the that the crops will. It is below the threshold anyway.
The media will try to make news out of anything.
She wouldnt mess up her nails gardening!
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