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Oh Noes!: Is the Obama Garden Laced with Dangerous Crap?

Thu, 07/02/2009 - 21:50

Updated July 6. See below.

Yesterday,organic farming activist Andrew Kimbrell, the executive director of the Center for Food Safety, wrote a piece for Huffington Post called "Obama Organic Family Garden: Swimming in Sludge?" in which he suggests that lead levels in the Obama's garden -- said to test at 93 parts per million -- are high enough to consider avoiding that soil for growing fruits and vegetables. Says Kimbrell: Read more...

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