Farmville, VIRGINIA - SLUDGE VICTIM Cynthia Mann SUFFERS GAGGING, INABILITY TO EAT, STOMACH PAINS AND
CRAMPS, HORRIBLE HEADACHES ... "THAT STUFF GETS IN YOUR NOSE AND SUFFOCATES YOU"
VIRGINIA - CYNTHIA MANN, 203 RAINES TAVERN ROAD FARMVILLE, VIRGINIA 23901
Original Message-----From: "cynthia mann" o To: "hshields" o
Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 9:45 PM Subject: info on sludge
> Mrs. Shields, I am still reading all the information you sent me. It just makes me side when I repeatedly here those
words," We have no documented proof that anyone has become ill from sludge".
> A couple of weeks ago I was driving up to Cartersville, in Cumberland County, and 1 passed this truck so full of sludge
that it was spilling on the road. The odor went up my nose and down my throat and 1 lost my breath.
> For sometime after that I gagged and could not get the odor out of my car. By the time 1 arrived back home 1 was so
ill. My stomach hurt so much that [ couldn't eat. Even now, two weeks later, I am still sick. I have also had these horrible
headaches that just wont go away. The next day, after I had seen this truck, I saw the sludge people dumping this black
stuff in a field next to the road. I had to go up this road so I had no choice but to
> pass this place.
They were spreading the sludge on Ann Sanderson's farm. Again 1 became ill, only this time my stomach hurt even
worse. Cramps so bad that I couldn't move. That stuff gets in your nose and sufficates you.
> You taste it and it feels thick in your throat. 1 had no idea they were putting it there or 1 would have taken the long
way around. There were no signs warning people and they poured it right up on the fence which is only
> a drainage ditch away from the highway. This was a horrible experience. How can anyone say ii doesn't smell, how
can anyone put this crap on their land. How can they state health department say they have no proof it makes
> people sick?
> I just wanted to tell what happened to me because! think anyone who gets sick from this sludge should have it
documented. 1 have never been that close to it before and I hope to never be again.
> Also my corn is now in the process of being tested. 1 hope to hear something soon. What do you think of people
banning together and starting a co-op of sludge free feeds and hay for animals? Some people gel angry when
> 1 ask if they use sludge. 1 don't want to support any farmer who would do that to their land or subject any animals to
that kind of feed. 1 have a right to know what I am feeding my animals.
>
> Thanks for all the information, I have friends that want to read it when I am done. What has happened to so many
people just breaks my heart.
>
> Sincerely, Cyndi Mann