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<big>Welcome to the new clearinghouse on toxic sludge issues. Read our investigative report, '''[http://www.prwatch.org/Chez+Sludge Chez Sludge: How the Sewage Sludge Industry Bedded Alice Waters]'''.</big> As noted in this new article by author [[John Stauber]], adviser to the [[Food Rights Network]], "The celebrity chef [[Alice Waters]] is probably the world's most famous advocate of growing and eating local, Organic food. In February 2010 her [[Chez Panisse Foundation]] chose as its new Executive Director the wealthy "green socialite" and liberal political activist [[Francesca Vietor]]. Vietor's hiring created a serious conflict of interest that has married Waters and her Foundation to the [[San Francisco Public Utilities Commission]] (SFPUC) and its scam of disposing of toxic sewage sludge waste as free "organic [[Biosolids]] compost." for gardens. For the first time, thanks to an ongoing "open records" investigation by the [[Food Rights Network]], the public and the press have easy online access to [[SFPUC Sludge Controversy Timeline|dozens of internal SFPUC files]], documenting the strange tale of <strong>Chez Sludge</strong>, or how the sewage industry bedded Alice Waters. . . ." Read more about this story [http://www.prwatch.org/Chez+Sludge here] and '''see the original smoking gun documents at the new SourceWatch page, [[SFPUC_Sludge_Controversy_Timeline]].'''