Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Marty Kraft <martyk@allspecies.org>]

Sorry. I just saw the forwarded piece I responded to. Sometimes I can't 
follow all the posts. I live a too fast life.

I think there is some good reason to anticipate that we may have to 
know how to use humanure safely in the future. and I know the USDA and 
other governmental agencies are under the influence of other interests 
besides the taxpayers and the light of truth.

Marty Kraft
On Jun 4, 2006, at 2:26 PM, Terry Wereb wrote:

>  Marty,
>   Isn't that what I said? Transference, not uptake?
>
>  I am not a plant physiologist-- but gosh-- I had to
> understand it to finish my degree!!! We just have a
> couple peole on here who DO NOT GET IT-- and will
> believe everything the USFDA and CDC has to say--
> After all, our governments will take care of us,
> correct?
>
> Terry W -- Who may very well have some oceanfront
> property for sale in Tennessee very soon. Or should I
> sell the Big Bridge I own over the San Francisco Bay?
>
>  Sorry Paul-- just HAD to do it....
>
>
> --- Marty Kraft <martyk@allspecies.org> wrote:
>
> > The cases of salmonella are caused by the pathogens
> > on the surface of
> > the plant not by what is taken up by the roots. All
> > the cases of food
> > poisoning by pathogens that I have heard of were
> > caused by people in
> > some manner or other transferring the pathogens to
> > the surface of the
> > food.  If the greywater contained mercury or cadmium
> > or some other
> > poisonous element or compound tiny enough to be
> > absorbed by plants then
> > it could be dangerous but that's not likely in
> > households where toxic
> > chemicals are not used. Any plant physiologists out
> > there?
> >
> > Marty Kraft
> > Kansas City
> > On Jun 3, 2006, at 12:34 PM,
>
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