Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy: In our Sewage Sludge?
"Headline: Alzheimer's Disease Spreading Faster Via Biosolids, Reclaimed Water."
A personal note arrived today from Gary Chandler, with an insightful factoid, "…Washington State has the highest rate of Alzheimer's disease in the U.S. In fact, it exceeds the rate in Finland, which has the highest rate of Alzheimer's disease in the world. Mismanaged sewage and sewage disposal throughout our watersheds is part of the equation. The threat to humans, wildlife and livestock is real. It's time for the truth. It's time for meaningful reforms and remediation around the world."
http://alzheimerdisease.tv/alzheimers-disease-spreading-faster-via-biosolids-reclaimed-water/
It is well worth the time to read Gary's article if you may have any concerns about the toxic sewage sludge being dropped into your living environment every day of your life, or if you care about your own personal grey matter.
Author Chandler tells us, "Approximately 44 million people around the world already have Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia. It's the fastest-growing cause of death in the world. Alzheimer's disease is a member of an aggressive family of neurodegenerative diseases known as Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy (TSE). The operative word is "transmissible." Related diseases are killing wildlife and livestock. The TSE epidemic represents an environmental nightmare that threatens every mammal on Earth.", and I will presume that also means us.
"… the prion pathogen spreads through feces, saliva, blood, milk, soil, water and the tissue of infected animals and humans. If a single person with prion disease discharges bodily fluids or feces into a public sewer system, that sewage system is permanently infected and the amount of contamination will multiply and intensify daily. Everything discharged from that sewage system - reclaimed water and biosolids - can spread the contamination even further."
So, can the Washington State Department of Ecology, the King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks, and their Wastewater Treatment Division, and all of their University of Washington, and their Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust (http://mtsgreenway.org/) partners, and the Washington State Department of Natural Resources, and other private and public organizations and agencies with which they consort, all be wrong about this, or could we? We never said it was "Safe" or that it "Improves Wildlife Habitat," as did they. Yet, before the sun is up tomorrow, many more double dump truck loads of King County's toxic sewage sludge will be headed for the dumping grounds of Washington, all under the unwatchful and negligent eye of the State Department of Ecology. Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust is no more than a toxic sewage sludge broker.
Considering not one of these groups or agencies has ever conducted a valid safety/toxicology test on any of the putrid toxic sewage sludge waste they dump openly on the land surface in the Snoqualmie forests, or on our farms and rangelands, so how could they ever justify such harmful behavior.
"This transmissible family of disease is unstoppable for many reasons. … once items are exposed to victims of prion disease, they can never be sterilized again."
"Because of these factors and others, we have an epidemic of prion disease exploding around the world right now. … the death rate for Alzheimer's is higher in Finland than any other country in the world. Iceland and the United States are runners up. In fact, the death rate for Alzheimer's is higher in Washington state than any other known region in the world. These vast discrepancies can only be explained by environmental factors, including food, water and air pathways. Sewage disposal that contaminates local food and water supplies is likely part of the problem."
"The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has confirmed that prions are in sewage and that there has been no way to detect them or stop them. As such, the EPA has never issued guidance on prion management within sewage processing plants. This lack of directive allows budget-strapped states and counties to regulate the practices in a variety of ways that best suit local municipalities and industries."
Let's face it, those environmental tree huggers (that would be me) are nut cases; why would anyone want to stop Alzheimer's Disease? If you happen to know anyone with Alzheimer's Disease, please think of them the next time a Loop truck goes by.
If I were a Prion, I would want to live here,
in some pools of slippery slimy sewage sludge,
or stuck to an old veggie label,
or to a hapless tree, amongst the dead and dying mosses,
or with the hairs, fibers, plastic bits, toxic metals and bone fragments,
or by a mini-mushroom. Do mushrooms get Alzheimer's Disease? I'll see if they remember.
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