Read the full article by Ben Felder (Investigate Midwest)

“The cool morning spring breeze hit Saundra Traywick ‘like a punch to the face.’

Walking through her wooded 38-acre donkey farm in central Oklahoma, Traywick suddenly found it hard to breathe as the air smelled ‘toxic’ and ‘like death.’ 

Less than a mile away, a truck was spreading a chunky dark fertilizer on a hay farm, a familiar ritual in this rural community just beyond Oklahoma City’s northeast suburbs.

But this fertilizer was putting off a smell that Traywick had never encountered. She soon discovered the fertilizer was made from processed sewage.”…