Beer endangerment

Is this true? Have you heard anything about it? Will you have to re-live days of going to Canada for beer?

Dear New York Beer Activist,

At the request of the New York State Brewers Association, we are alerting you to an issue which could dramatically affect your access to the craft beers made by small breweries all across the country.

As you have likely learned, the state of New York recently enacted a requirement that bottled products sold in your state must bear a New York-specific UPC code for bottle deposit and redemption purposes. This requirement will have severe negative impacts on many businesses, including and particularly, small breweries.

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Urban vegetable gardens

Read this story: http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2009/05/syracuses_community_gardens_ar.html

Now, I have done some research on this topic and it turns out that heavy metal uptake in plants is minimal in normal soil pH.  It also seems lead in urban soils is a common thing.  So the fix would be to bring in some good soil to garden in.

Apparently that is exactly what they did, right Jon?