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<h1><small><small><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/642/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=2820">http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/642/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=2820</a></small></small></h1>
<h1><small><small>Sign the Petition to Chef Alice Waters</small></small></h1>
<p><b>Please, Alice, Speak Out Against Growing Food in Toxic Sewage
Sludge!</b></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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."</p>
<p>Neither Alice Waters nor her foundation <a
href="http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_20534.cfm">have
ever made a public statement flatly opposing</a> the growing of any
food in toxic sewage sludge.</p>
<p>Join us in asking Alice Waters to publicly oppose growing food in
toxic sewage sludge.<br>
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<p>Sign the petition at:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/642/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=2820">http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/642/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=2820</a><br>
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"I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves." – Che Guevara</pre>
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