Sourced from the Washington Post

The U.S. government is encouraging farmers to spread a chalky waste from coal-fired power plants on their fields to loosen and fertilize soil.

The material is produced by power plant "scrubbers" that remove acid-rain-causing sulfur dioxide from plant emissions. The substance is a synthetic form of the mineral gypsum, and it also contains mercury, arsenic, lead and other heavy metals.

The Environmental Protection Agency says those toxic metals occur in only tiny amounts. But some environmentalists say too little is known about how the material affects crops, and ultimately human health.

"This is a leap into the unknown," said Jeff Ruch, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. "This stuff has materials in it that we're trying to prevent entering the environment from coal-fired power plants, and then to turn around and smear it across agricultural lands raises some real questions."

With wastes piling up around the coal-fired plants that produce half the nation's power, the EPA and U.S. Department of Agriculture began promoting what they call the wastes' "beneficial uses" during the Bush administration.

The problem here is that Bush and Obama can afford a 100% organic diet, purified drinking water and the best medical care money can buy while I shop at Cub Foods in an effort to minimize my total food expense and buy fruits and vegetables already lathered in pesticides, herbicides and fungicides and Bovine Growth Hormone derived from the manure used in the agricultural process.

Honestly, I've had it up to my ears with chemical environmental poisons and I plan on leaking Mercury form my fingertips onto any elites I might meet during the handshaking ceremony. These people are shameless. Empathy doesn't exist.