Also along these lines is the fact the big industries were selling their toxic wastes as fertilizer to unsuspecting farmers. At the time they were doing this it was legal according to EPA guidelines. Crops died, animals died and people got sick with heavy metal poisoning. The companies found a loophole in the EPA regulations and felt it was cheaper for them to sell the toxic wastes as fertilizer than the only other alternative they had. The only other alternative they had to dispose of their toxic wastes was to store them in a Superfund Toxic Waste Dump.

See Duff Wilson's award winning investigative journalism articles, "Fear in The Fields, Parts I and II." I"ll link it for you.

http://www.bioethicscourse.info/onlinetextsite/fearinfields.html

Duff Wilson also has written a very good book expanding on this practice. It's called, "Fateful Harvest."

Sometimes, the more I learn, the more frightened I become!

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