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As a long time supporter of NPR, it is always disconcerting when they do biased articles. I've found this true in other environmental cases. Even when pressed to rewrite, they still wind up with the same bias! This bad piece of journalism goes to show that the author did not do research beyond interviews, and that it is an industry piece. When Cornell, USGS, EPA, Switzerland, farmers in France and the world over that have experienced degraded soils, loss of livestock and bees, home sites and health, are joined by numerous food companies that refuse to accept food grown in sludge, one must applaud Whole Foods for taking the stand it has. If the writer and those pro the land spreading of toxic waste water treatment plant sludge purchase certain products not grown in this waste and shop at Whole Foods, they have those of us around the world that fight to end this toxic practice to thank for the protection of their health and that of the health of their families.