The fertilizer maker says its products are safe, such as the shit that comes from BS Farm and Ranch in Lakeland Florida. And that the government supports using it as a valuable practice that recycles nutrients in farmlands.
But now Ranchers say their cattle, fish, and horses are dying and getting sick because of a fertilizer spread on nearby farmland.
BS Farm and Ranch has also sold thousands of cubic yards to strawberry farms in Plant City.
God only knows what pathogens etc. our food products were contaminated with by the so-called “recycled biosolids” used by Plant City Strawberry farmers.
This so-called fertilizer is made from human waste.
The company that makes the fertilizer says its products meet government standards.
County officials and FDEP have launched multiple investigations but BS Farm and Ranch in Lakeland continues to make these shit.
After Hurricane Debby, BS Farm and Ranch began pumping toxic water into preserve areas that run into Lake Hankcock which is the headwater of the Peace River. So far they released over 32 million gallons of the toxic mix outside the permitted area.
Contaminates have made Lake Hankcock one of the most polluted lakes in Polk County.
Toxic manmade chemicals ended up in Lake Handcock, Peace River, and even in Charlotte Harbor.
State health officials issued reports describing the nutrient and bacterial contamination that was flowing into the lake and the Peace River from inadequately treated sewage.
Piles of fertilizer made from biosolids, which come from human waste and are full of what researchers call PFAS, also known as “forever chemicals.”
According to multiple studies and the Environmental Protection Agency, all humans consume PFAS chemicals, which are used to make all sorts of products including shampoo, carpet, frying pans, and even makeup. The chemicals end up in our human waste, which is then sent to a wastewater treatment facility. During the treatment, biosolids are created.
Those biosolids, also called sewage sludge, can be used to make fertilizer,
U.S. EPA requirements,” the statement reads. “U.S. EPA continues to support land application of biosolids as a valuable practice that recycles nutrients to farmland and has not suggested at this time that PFAS in biosolids requires any changes to current biosolids management practices.”
Biosolid fertilizer is sold across the nation for agricultural use. According to PEER, it sometimes contains toxic levels of PFAS.
Experts say PFAS chemicals are carcinogenic and can kill animals, fish, and humans.