Bland County VA Puppy mill.
Write letters now and/or attend the hearing June 26th if you happen to live in the area.
I was absolutely shocked by the following. This is rather scary. I wonder how many others are using the waste for this. It reminds me of when, years ago, someone approached me asking for the waste, from my kennel, to use on their vegatable garden.
"Dogwood Kennels has announced they may dispose of dog waste by putting it on farmers#%92 crops. They plan to douse it first with lime and mix it with “redworms”. Dog feces contain worms that can be transmitted to humans and cause blindness and also serious illness and affect other tissues and organs. There is no authority that mixing lime and redworms with the feces, as Dogwood Kennels claims, does anything to eliminate the health concerns. In fact, authorities including National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health (NIH), and Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), say this does not eliminate the health hazard. There is also the danger the waste will leach into the groundwater and contaminate"
Here's a link to more info.
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http://network.bestfriends.org/truth/news/15673.html]http://network.bestfriends.org/truth/news/15673.html[/link]