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 Stories About: mercury AND oceans AND fishing AND toxics AND food
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The good news is that we're pulling mercury from the ocean
The worst good news/bad news tale ever told |
JMG |
25 Jul 2007 |
Gristmill |
| The bad news is that we're doing it by eating the fish that are eating the concentrated mercury in the food chain, further concentrating it in ... us. Mad as hatters we are! This could also have been titled, "Another reason that coal is the enemy of the human race (or at least those members of it that like to eat)." |
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| Topics: fishing, food, mercury, oceans, toxics (all these topics) |
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