Hey, friends. Donna here, and let’s get right into it because this week’s topic is one that will flat-out make your stomach turn.
For decades, we’ve been told that a specific form of “recycled” fertilizer is a sustainable, nutrient-rich option for our farmlands. They call it biosolids. It sounds nice, right? Green, eco-friendly, maybe a little crunchy. They’ve done a heck of a job making it sound like pure, clean compost.
But here’s the unvarnished, ugly truth: biosolids are toxic sewage sludge. And this isn’t an accident. This is the Toxic Biosolids on Your Food scandal, a systemic failure built by the Sickness Economy to turn a huge, expensive waste problem into a sneaky, profit-making poison delivery system.
What They Don’t Want You To Know About “Nutrient-Rich” Sludge
You need to understand what this sludge actually is. It’s the solid byproduct from municipal wastewater treatment plants [4]. This isn’t just good, old-fashioned manure. This is everything that gets washed down the drain, and I mean everything [4].
Think about all the junk flowing into our sewer systems from our homes, hospitals, and industries:
- Pharmaceuticals
- Heavy metals like arsenic, lead, and mercury [2]
- Industrial chemicals
- And the worst offender: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances)—the “forever chemicals” [2, 3].
Wastewater treatment plants were never designed to filter out these thousands of man-made compounds [4, 5]. So, what happens? They concentrate in the sludge, which is then rebranded as “biosolids” and spread across millions of acres of American farmland as a cheap fertilizer alternative [3]. This is greenwashing on a massive, catastrophic scale [2].
The Evidence Is Staring Them in the Face
It’s not just me talking, either. The system knows this is a problem. The EPA itself released a draft risk assessment earlier this year—in January 2025—which found that these forever chemicals in sewage-based fertilizers could pose a cancer risk to people consuming milk, eggs, and beef from farms that use the sludge [6, 7].
Let me be clear: The federal government’s own science is sounding the alarm that this practice is poisoning our food supply.
When an industry finds a way to get paid to dump their toxic, unregulated waste on the land that feeds us, and the regulators turn a blind eye, that’s not a mistake—that’s a profit-driven conspiracy against public health. If you want to understand why this continuous cycle of contamination and cover-up is happening, you need to grasp a core truth: The System Isn’t Broken; It Was Built This Way to prioritize profit over people.
States are already in motion because the federal government is moving too slow. Maine and Connecticut have already said, “Enough is enough,” and banned the land application of PFAS-contaminated biosolids because it was devastating local farms and poisoning wells [2, 8]. Farmers are being forced to shut down after their land and livestock are found to be contaminated with unsafe levels of PFAS [6, 9].
Our Sovereignty, Our Resistance
If you feel confused, betrayed, or angry right now, I want you to take a deep breath. You are not alone in this fight. They have done everything in their power to hide this from you. They gave a toxic waste product a nice, academic-sounding name to make you trust it.
But here’s where we reclaim our power. This is the cornerstone of Make America Healthy Again: Why It Starts at Home, and the very reason A Voice for Change exists. We stop relying on the Big Ag system to protect us and start taking immediate, self-directed action.
This is your mission for this week. This is your personal resistance:
THE RESISTANCE: Secure Your Soil and Your Plate
Your immediate, self-directed action starts with where you get your soil and what you put on your plate:
- Question Your Compost: If you buy compost or soil amendments for your home garden, avoid anything sourced from a municipal wastewater treatment utility [3]. The bag might say “compost,” but it could be toxic sewage sludge. Ask the garden center or the supplier for the exact source material. If they can’t tell you, walk away.
- Source Your Proteins: If you consume animal products, you must know where they graze. Prioritize buying grass-fed beef, dairy, and eggs from local farmers you know and trust—farmers who can look you in the eye and guarantee they do not use biosolids or sewage sludge on their fields. Visit your local farmer’s market and ask the hard questions.
We cannot wait for the EPA to regulate the poison out of the system. We must build our own clean food economy from the ground up, starting with our own kitchens and our own farmer relationships. The fight for clean soil is the fight for our health sovereignty.
Next Week on Farmland Friday: We are digging into the core of how they control the harvest. Join us for Seeds of Deception where we’ll expose the corporate control of our food from the very beginning: the seeds themselves. Get ready to understand the true cost of GMOs and why seed sovereignty is the ultimate act of resistance.
With love and truth,
—Donna 💚
Footnotes
[1] Fact Sheet: Draft Sewage Sludge Risk Assessment for PFOA and PFOS: Information for Farmers. EPA. January 2025.
[2] Legislators, Advocates and Farmers Call for Ban of Toxic Sewage Sludge on Farmland. The New York State Senate. April 30, 2025.
[3] ‘Forever chemicals’ in sludge may taint nearly 70 million farmland acres. Environmental Working Group. January 14, 2025.
[4] Biosolids: mix human waste with toxic chemicals, then spread on crops. The Guardian. October 5, 2019.
[5] Hidden Dangers: Johns Hopkins Unmasks Hazardous Chemicals in Biosolid Fertilizers. Johns Hopkins University (via Scitechdaily). June 25, 2024.
[6] EPA report says “forever chemicals” in sewage-based fertilizer pose cancer risk. The Texas Tribune. January 14, 2025.
[7] EPA Releases Draft Risk Assessment to Advance Scientific Understanding of PFOA and PFOS in Biosolids. EPA Press Office. January 14, 2025.
[8] PFAS And Biosolids: Evolving Considerations For Agriculture. Wisconsin Water Operators’ Association.
[9] Earthjustice Comments on EPA Risk Assessment. Earthjustice. August 14, 2025.
