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Farms that thought they were organic were getting free wastewater sludge -- recommended by the EPA -- and applying it to the land as fertilizer. The tiny fraction of land that they test gets reclassified as permanently unusable for agriculture now. But it was an extremely common practice and they barely test any farms. So do the math. It's everywhere. Particularly in the meat and veggies.


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