Chez Sludge: How the Sewage Sludge Industry Bedded Alice Waters

Chez Sludge: How the Sewage Sludge Industry Bedded Alice Waters
by John Stauber

The celebrity chef Alice Waters is probably the world's most famous advocate of growing and eating local, Organic food. In February, 2010 her Chez Panisse Foundation chose as its new Executive Director the wealthy "green socialite" and liberal political activist Francesca Vietor. Vietor's hiring created a serious conflict of interest that has married Waters and her Foundation to the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) and its scam of disposing of toxic sewage sludge waste as free "organic Biosolids compost." for gardens.

For the first time, thanks to an ongoing "open records" investigation by the Food Rights Network, the public and the press have easy online access to dozens of internal SFPUC files, documenting the strange tale of Chez Sludge, or how the sewage industry bedded Alice Waters.

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For more information on toxic sludge issues visit the Toxic Sludge Portal on SourceWatch.org