EPA Program Spreads Toxins Across America’s Farmland

From James Heiser @ The New American (published by American Opinion Publishing, a wholly owned subsidiary of The John Birch Society)

“The federal government is encouraging farmers to spread a chalky waste (a whitish, calcium-rich material known as flue gas desulfurization gypsum, or FGD gypsum) from coal-fired power plants on their fields to loosen and fertilize soil…

About half of the 17.7 million tons of FGD gypsum produced in the United States last year was used to make drywall…

They’re poisoning our food sources and our dwellings with this stuff. What’s next? Toxic clothing? Our personal care products are already full of synthetic toxins and poisonous industry by-products.