dangers of human sewage sludge in fertilizing products?

[wis99ski]

I don't think these claims are new but I came across this and found it interesting.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/draxe.com/ ... mpost/amp/

[turf_toes]

The article uses compost and fertilizer interchangeably.

It's hard to take the article seriously when it can't get that right.

[darkcrisis]

I'm not sure what is worse, the article or the website.

[wis99ski]

I agree. But there are certainly interesting statements made.

[bpgreen]

I stopped reading when I saw draxe.com.

[piscean]

Sounds conspiracy to me by Monsanto aka Scott. They might be feeling pressure from milo sales.

[OldGlory]

I don't use Milo in my vegetable garden because of this. Its lawn and shrubs only for my yard.

[tlinden]

If you read the sources:

"Lost sales of Milorganite, disposal of contaminated product and cleanup of the recreation fields cost MMSD nearly $5 million. To prevent another incident of contamination, the fertilizer is tested daily, said Sharon Mertens, MMSD director of water quality protection."

Also, one of the sources was a study on sewage plants in South Africa. Now I have nothing against them but I'm pretty sure the EPA is stricter here in the USA than the South African equivalent.

[MorpheusPA]

I stopped reading after the first sentence. "Shampoo chemicals" in my tomatoes are not an incidental, I spray shampoo ON my tomatoes*.

* OK, I make my own shampoo, but still...that just means I know what every chemical in there is, why it's there, and what it does. Also, I'd do this IF I had tomatoes, which I don't. But I do have some eggplant and a bunch of edible flowers and plants.