Written in 2003 Perhaps the recent finding of mad cow will be a wake up call to Americans who naïvely believe that the government is protecting the food supply; a supposition that couldn’t be farther from the truth.  It appears that many regulations are not designed for food protection, but instead to save waste generating…

A Seattle Times investigation found that, across the nation, industrial wastes laden with heavy metals and other dangerous materials are being used in fertilizers and spread over farmland. The process saves dirty industries the high costs of disposing of hazardous wastes.(July 3 – 4, 1997) While the Seattle Times claimed the process was legal, only…