[Sustain] Action: Ask Chef Alice Waters To Take Stand On Sludge 'Compost'

[Eric Brooks]

  http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/642/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=2820


  Sign the Petition to Chef Alice Waters

*Please, Alice, Speak Out Against Growing Food in Toxic Sewage Sludge!*

Legendary organic chef Alice Waters is an outspoken opponent of using 
genetically engineered foods. OCA has asked her to take the same strong 
stand opposing the use of toxic sewage sludge to grow food. The City of 
San Francisco in the Bay Area where she lives has been deceptively 
giving away toxic sludge to gardeners and farmers, calling this 
hazardous material "organic biosolids compost." We want Alice, as the 
founder of the famous Chez Panisse Restaurant, to add her powerful voice 
to the fight to stop using gardens and farms as dumps for toxic sewage 
sludge.

It is especially important because the Executive Director of Alice 
Water's Chez Panisse Foundation is Francesca Vietor, who is also the 
Vice President of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, the 
agency that has been giving away tons of toxic sludge and deceiving 
recipients.

The Chez Panisse Foundation promotes Edible Schoolyard's organic 
gardens. Obviously its Executive Director, who was appointed to the PUC 
in 2008 by the Mayor of San Francisco, is conflicted on this issue. She 
is working for both Alice Waters' Foundation and for the Public 
Utilities Commission and the Mayor. Mayor Newsom calls the sewage sludge 
"very healthy and safe."

Neither Alice Waters nor her foundation have ever made a public 
statement flatly opposing 
<http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_20534.cfm> the growing 
of any food in toxic sewage sludge.

Join us in asking Alice Waters to publicly oppose growing food in toxic 
sewage sludge.

Sign the petition at: 
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/642/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=2820

-- 
"I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves." -- Che Guevara

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