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MS Awareness Week

Posted on March 17, 2011 by Staff

March 14-20, 2011 is Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week. Please be conscious of the prevalence of multiple sclerosis in this area and in the United States. There is no known cure or cause of MS. There are many theories and genetic predispositions. But, personally, I believe the prevalence of man-made toxins in our environment are contributing to the extensive amount of autoimmune illnesses such as MS as well as the multitude of cancers in this country.

I have been informed of sewage sludge being dumped on our farmland all over Orange County. This sludge is given free to area farmers and may include “hundreds of dangerous pathogens, toxic heavy metals, flame-retardants, endocrine disruptors, carcinogens, pharmaceutical drugs and other hazardous chemicals coming from residential drains, storm water runoff, hospitals, and industrial plants” along with “antibiotic-resistant bacteria created through horizontal gene transfer.” This sludge is being dumped regularly on farmland in our county.

If you are as concerned as I am, I urge you to contact your congressman to support H.R.254, the Sewage Sludge in Food Production Consumer Notification Act. This act would prevent food and animal feed from being grown on land spread with toxic sludge.

You never know what cancer or autoimmune disease you may prevent by stopping this practice. Please help stop the spreading of this unspeakable sludge concoction on our local farmland and all over the country.

And please remember this is MS Awareness Week.

Debbie L. Nichols
Chapel Hill

3 thoughts on “MS Awareness Week”

  1. Betty Cross says:
    March 19, 2011 at 11:09 am

    The Orange County Agricultural Summit is today, March 21st, so this letter is especially timely. Over 24% of Orange County cropland receives sewage sludge as fertilizer from multiple muncipalities in the Triangle – 20+ million gallons per year. Cattle are allowed to graze on sludge land after only a 30 day waiting period. Toxins entering the food chain through sludge used as fertilizer is a very real concern. Thank you for this letter.

  2. Nancy Holt says:
    March 19, 2011 at 5:28 pm

    The Toledo Ohio University performed a survey of people living within a mile of land applied sewage sludge and the same number of people living outside the one mile limit. The results were astounding for the number of cases of MS the people living within a one mile radius of the land applied sewage sludge farms versus those living greater distances from the dumping of municipal toxic waste.

    Of course, the sewage sludge industry poo-poo’ed the results, but nobody has yet been able to come up with a reason for the vast differences in community health problems experienced by people living near sludge applied farmlands and those living at greater distances from these sludged fields.

  3. myra dotson says:
    March 24, 2011 at 9:05 am

    Debbie Nichols makes a very valid point. Published in “American Journal of Forensic Medicine & Pathology” is the following abstract regarding a clustering of MS cases in Galion, Ohio, 1982-1985:
    ” Epidemiologic evidence indicates that the outbreak of 30-40 cases of multiple sclerosis and other demyelinating syndromes in Galion, Ohio, USA, during 1982-1985 was related to an excess concentration of heavy-metal wastes, especially of cadmium and chromium in sewage and river water. Both multiple sclerosis and myasthenia gravis were diagnosed by board-certified neurologists.”

    http://journals.lww.com/amjforensicmedicine/Abstract/1989/09000/Clustering_of_Multiple_Sclerosis_in_Galion,_Ohio,.8.aspx

    Thank you Debbie for educating us on the MS Awareness Week!

    Myra Dotson

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