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    Default Phosphate fertilisers are poisoning the air, water, soil, wildlife and our food

    Phosphorus is one of the elements that are essential for plant growth. Phosphorus is the P in N-P-K fertilisers. Phosphate fertilisers and their many toxic by-products are poisoning the air, water, soil, wildlife and our food.

    Most people are unaware that the processing of mineral phosphate to make phosphate ferilisers produces fluoride acid gas. This post (and full article) is not just about fluoride. That's just a part of a much bigger problem. I urge you to read all of this.

    Quote In the past, when the industry let these gases escape, vegetation became scorched, crops destroyed, and cattle crippled

    "Wet Scrubbers" - pollution control devices - used by the phosphate industry to capture fluoride gases produced in the production of commercial fertilizer.


    Quote ...the impacts of the industry’s fluoride emissions are still being felt, although more subtly, by millions of people – people who, for the most part, do not live anywhere near a phosphate plant.

    That’s because, the fluoride acid (hydrofluorosilicic acid), a classified hazardous waste, is barreled up and sold, unrefined, to communities across the country. Communities add hydrofluorosilicic acid to their water supplies as the primary fluoride chemical for water fluoridation.

    Even if you don’t live in a community where fluoride is added to water, you’ll still be getting a dose of it through cereal, soda, juice, beer and any other processed food and drink manufactured with fluoridated water.

    Meanwhile, if the phosphate industry has its way, it may soon be distributing another of its by-products to communities across the country. That waste product is radium, which may soon be added to a roadbed near you – if the EPA buckles and industry has its way.
    It gets worse. Much worse. Read on.

    A recent report to the European Commission estimates that an average of one kilogram of uranium has been spread on each hectare of EU farmland since the 1950s. The contamination is probably worse in Australia where much of our soil is P-deficient so more phosphate is added to our soil than in Europe.

    What about USA?


    Central Florida phosphate fertilizer plant

    Quote While the radioactivity of the gypsum stacks has probably been the key health concern of the EPA, it is not the only one.

    Resting atop the phosphate industry’s gypsum piles are highly-acidic wastewater ponds, littered with toxic contaminants, including fluoride, arsenic, cadmium, chromium, lead, mercury, and the various decay-products of uranium. This combination of acidity and toxins makes for a poisonous, high-volume, cocktail, which, when leaked into the environment, wreaks havoc to waterways and fish populations.
    Quote To make 1 pound of commercial fertilizer, the phosphate industry creates 5 pounds of contaminated phosphogypsum slurry (calcium sulfate). This slurry is piped from the processing facilities up into the acidic wastewater ponds that sit atop the mountainous waste piles known as gypsum stacks.

    According to the EPA, 32 million tons of new gypsum waste is created each year by the phosphate industry in Central Florida alone. (Central Florida is the heart of the US phosphate industry). The EPA estimates that the current stockpile of waste in Central Florida’s gypsum stacks has reached “nearly 1 billion metric tons.” (The average gypsum stack takes up about 135 acres of surface area – equal to about 100 football fields – and can go as high as 200 feet.)

    Rail cars carrying sulfur to process phosphate rock, with giant gypsum stack looming in background.


    Fluoride-contaminated wastewater sitting on top of “gypsum stack.”

    Quote While uranium, and its decay-products, naturally occur in phosphate ore, their concentrations in the gypsum waste, after the extraction of soluble phosphate, are up to 60 times greater.

    Sinkhole on top of a "gypsum stack"

    Where do you think that toxic cocktail is draining to? Central Florida's ground water and rivers.

    Quote One spill, in 1997, from a now-defunct gypsum stack in Florida, “killed more than a million fish.”

    “Strike the Alafia River off your list of fishing spots,” wrote one journalist after the spill. “It’s gone, dead as a sewer pipe, killed by the carelessness of yet another phosphate company.”

    Today, the same gypsum stack which caused this particular spill, is considered by Florida’s Department of Environmental Protection to be “the most serious pollution threat in the state.” That’s because tropical rains over the past couple of years have brought the wastewater to the edge of the stack’s walls.

    As noted by the Tampa Tribune, “The gypsum mound is near capacity, and a wet spring or a tropical storm could cause a catastrophic spill.”

    To prevent such a spill, which was all but inevitable, the EPA recently agreed to let Florida pursue “Option Z“: To load 500-600 million gallons of the wastewater onto barges and dump it directly into the Gulf of Mexico.
    Now the industry wants to solve the problem by using the mountainous "gypsum stacks" in roads. And, of course, they will use taxpayers' money to buy the toxic waste before they spread it all over the nation.

    Quote A recent statement from the EPA reads:

    Quote “Only two uses (for the gypsum) are permitted: limited agricultural use and research. Other uses may be proposed, but otherwise the phosphogypsum must be returned to mines or stored in stacks.”
    Of course, they don't limit the agricultural use of gypsum much because they make too much money selling gypsum. Oh, it's too toxic to use as road-base but it's ok to use it for growing food? WTF?!!! That is seriously crazy and we are lazy if we allow them to continue poisoning the planet.

    The quotes and photos above are just a few snippets from the full article:
    http://fluoridealert.org/articles/phosphate01/

    Sadly, the vast majority of food, worldwide, is grown with fertilisers that are toxic to the environment and everything in it, including people. But this is not all doom and gloom. There are much better, non-toxic ways to fertilise the soil so we can grow healthy food rather than eat mineral-deficient food contaminated with radioactive and other toxic waste.

    What did you eat today?

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    Default Re: Phosphate fertilisers are poisoning the air, water, soil, wildlife and our food

    Looks like they've been changing names again. Flourine poisoning=madcow? Who's to know, when they are paid to turn their head or sign off on it. I believe that this may also be in the chem trails. In 2013, my crops were scorched, even though there was few clear sunny days, just 'hazy" overcloud days and humidity. Soils stayed damp longer.
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    Default Re: Phosphate fertilisers are poisoning the air, water, soil, wildlife and our food

    The factory farms continue to delude themselves into thinking NPK fertilizer is the only source of nutrition for the plant material, when in fact plants need a multitude of nutrients to thrive properly. The thing most often missing are soil microbes. These bacteria are crucial in providing nutritious food for humans and other animals. Most farm land is simply DEAD. Buy organic and local, save your life!
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