Safe
Food and Fertilizer is a grassroots citizens’ organization whose mission
is to protect
human health and the environment by advocating for a ban on the use of
hazardous and other industrial wastes in fertilizer, soil amendments
and animal feed. Our
goals are to seek the establishment of national standards protective of
our most vulnerable populations, especially developing fetuses; to
provide technical, regulatory, and educational assistance to
organizations, individual and elected officials locally, nationally and
internationally; and to ensure that laws governing waste product
recycling -- and hazardous and solid waste disposal -- are enforced at
the state, federal and international levels, litigating when necessary
to seek compliance.
About us
Safe
Food and Fertilizer was co-founded by former mayor Patty Martin; Jane
Williams, former chairwoman of the Sierra Club’s Committee on Hazardous
Waste and the Executive Director of California Communities Against
Toxics, and Dr. Brian Lipsett, co-founder of the Environmental
Background Information Center. The
trio recognized the need to establish an organization committed solely
to this issue, in large part because of the complexity of the
regulations governing it and because of its obvious consequence to
human and ecological health.
A
1997 Seattle Times’ investigative series “Fear in the Fields: How
Hazardous Waste Becomes Fertilizer” and the book “Fateful Harvest, the
True Story of a Small Town, a Global Industry and a Toxic Secret”
detail the events of the embattled mayor and farmers Dennis DeYoung,
Tom Witte, Russell Sligar and Duke Giraud.
Safe Food and Fertilizer became a project
of Earth Island Institute (EII) in December 2002.
