SLUDGE VICTIMS

May 2001 update - compiled by Helane Shields - prepared for WWW by ESRA

TENNESSEE

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"Trust Us: We're Experts"


(Rampton and Stauber (20011 Center for Media and Democracy)
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My child is currently enrolled in Watauga Elementary School,' says Tamara Rich of Ridgetop, Tennessee. "Both his school and our home are approximately 1000 yards from a sludge dump called Show Me Farms. Although the experts will tell you there is no danger, they will also tell you there is no smell."

"For the past year, more often than not, people gag when they walk out of the door. Our school has not been able to open windows or let the children play outside most days."

"Of course, my house is now on the market, with little to no hope of selling. Ridgetop citizens seem to be having a high level of strokes, defined as due to unknown toxins bv Vanderbilt Hospital.
There's also been a lung malfunction for one child that was also labeled by Vanderbilt as'unknown toxins.'."

"From the point of view of the technocrats and spin doctors, the Tamara Riches of the world are just 'hypermotivated complainants,' and their stories of illness, inconvenience, and injury are merely "unfounded anecdotes" that should not be taken seriously."

"Given the public's evident inability to smell the difference between sludge -and shinola, someone has to do our thinking for us, and that's where the experts come in."

STROKES AND LUNG MALFUNCTION DUE TO "UNKNOWN TOXINS".

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