Sushi Mercury Levels Wayyyyyyy High

[liveonearth]

I guess it's just as well that I stopped eating sushi. Recent laboratory tests in New York found so much mercury in tuna sushi that two or three pieces a week at some restaurants could be a health hazard. Eight out of the 44 pieces of sushi purchased by the New York Times for testing had mercury levels so high that the FDA could take legal action

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more than you wanted to know about fish safety

[liveonearth]

What makes a fish have high mercury is being very carnivorous and large, because the mercury concentrates in each fish. So if the fish you eat is like a tuna---very big and eats whole schools of medium sized fish which eat schools of little fish etc.... well you get the idea. Also there's more mercury in our atmosphere and waters closer to the equator, and less closer to the poles, so northern herbivorous fish are best. Not that I know of any of those. And wild is better than farmed, because the farmed ones are pumped full of shit just like farmed cows and chickens. The mercury levels in ALL fish are continuing to rise because we're burning more and more coal, that's what does it.

My favorite online doc recommends that we stop eating fish entirely and take fish oil supplements for the essential oils that we are missing. He says to get fish oil that has been tested and proven to be free of mercury. If our FDA has come out to say pregnant women shouldn't eat tuna, then you know it must be bad.

FYI: I tested high for mercury and arsenic, myself. Hair test. Not sure where the arsenic was coming from. Maybe L was poisoning me? Heh. Just jokin'.

Re: more than you wanted to know about fish safety

[xplorher]

ahhh gotcha..re: the food chain..
i thought mercury was a naturally occuring metal in the earth, and if it's exposed..then it does damage. i was imagining it to be at the bottom of the ocean in the earth..
i wonder how burning coal affects mercury levels?
ooo i remember you saying tests showed arsenic in you..and i'm pretty sure that is something allowed in drinking water, at low levels..
eeek
L was poisoning you, just with her negative vibes!

Re: more than you wanted to know about fish safety

[liveonearth]

Coal has mercury and sulfur in it, and the particulates that go into the air form sulfuric acid rain that can carry more metals because it is acid. So it comes to us by way of air pollution to poison rain to poison waters to poison fish....

Arsenic is a common pollutant in well water but not in the Flagstaff area. The spring with the fountain down on Oak Creek is high in arsenic. You can also get arsenic in you from breathing auto smog and from eating commercial chicken. The feed that corporate chicken producers feed their chickens contains arsenic. Except Tyson, their chicken is arsenic free.

Anyway.

aquifer

[xplorher]

what i've been told is mt. dell water comes from the same aquifer that pumps out at the creek..and the levels are monitored.
ah ok, coal already has arsenic in it..makes sense now..thx..and I did not know Tyson was the better of all the evils.. good info. thank you darlin!
I saw Willie Nelson play last night. I am strangely single now..wayyyy extra super single..and it doesn't feel that great. Not that bad, but I do love love.
It's your Bday at the end of the week! My calandar tells me so! Doing anything fun?

Re: aquifer

[liveonearth]

I've been told different---that the origins of those two waters are different aquifers. Arsenic accumulates in people too, so I could have got my poisoning long before I came to AZ.

I think I know that strangely super single feeling and it was uneasy for me too.....though after a while it started being wings instead of shackles. I missed the lovin' too, but the freedom was beautiful.

No big plans for the BD but it is a Friday and I am not working that night, so I betcha my sweetie will go OUT with me.