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Kevin
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 Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 11:35 pm Post subject: Altered Oceans at LATimes.com |
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Altered Oceans at LATimes.com
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/oceans/la-oceans-series,0,7842752.special
This is a powerful set of five feature articles on the state of our oceans today. Very well-written and full of information. Along with loss of terrestrial habitats and global warming, what humankind (heavy consumers like us especially) is doing to the oceans is the third leg of a disastrous tripod. Frankly and honestly, the accelerating destruction that every-day first world business-as-usual is doing to our island planet is horrific. We've got to stop.
Reading these stories will help.
Five stories sounds a bit overwhelming. If you're not sure where to begin, start here:
Plague of Plastic Chokes the Seas
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/la-me-ocean2aug02,0,5594900.story?coll=la-adelphia-right-rail
"The Los Angeles River carries enough trash each year to fill the Rose Bowl two stories high, and despite efforts to corral some of it near the river mouth, most slips through to the ocean."
(Free registration required, and well worth it.) |
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Ed Ziomek
Joined: 07 Jun 2005
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Location: Stamford, Connecticut
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| Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 10:05 am Post subject: Heavy Metals Poisoning our Oceans too! |
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Kevin...and everyone...
I realize that the topic is about plastics destroying ocean wildlife, but let me add the topic of heavy metals saturating that same wildlife population.
Fish, maybe all fish species, are being saturated with heavy metals...mercury and aluminum, chromium, etc. etc.
There are now major, major advisories against pregnant women eating tuna and salmon...please correct me if I get it wrong...
I am on the side and opinion that ALL OCEAN FISH SPECIES may now be harmful to human consumption.
I just heard yesterday the massively troubling news that beef products may now be severely contaminated with mercury poisoning...I cannot verify or dispute...I only heard this rumor.
How is beef getting its mercury? Pesticides and fungicides that protect the corn from pest destruction enter the human food chain by the cows that are fed this as animal feed.
And of course there is the runoff from these same pesticides which enter the local waters which end up in the ocean waters.
Readers, please educate me... are you hearing the same thing?
Are our local, state, and national government agencies doing enough to stop polluting our local streams and ocean waters?
Absolutely not. But I am going to do something proactively in my community about this problem. More on this later.
PS...My grandson was just diagnosed with Autism, and the main culprit is mercurial poisoning, either in dental fillings, tuna/salmon ingestion, or meat ingestion...the most likely culprit is mercurial poisoning.
List of mercurial fungicides
http://www.alanwood.net/pesticides/class_fungicides.html#mercury_fungicides
Mercury test kit
http://www.heavymetalstest.com/mercury.php
Example of local government waste disposal website...
http://www.govlink.org/hazwaste/house/disposal/AnyProduct.cfm?entityID=898&catID=930
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Kevin
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One bit to correct:
Tuna and most other predatory fish have high mercury and should only be consumed in limited quantities, and not all all by sensitive/high risk groups.
North American salmon does not have high mercury.
Farmed salmon, especially from the North Atlantic, tends to have high PCBs (from continental sources).
So wild Alaskan salmon turns out to be one of the safest large/carniverous fishes one can eat currently.
I've looked into this a fair amount. Turns out the Monterey Bay Aquarium, housed in a Great Building:
http://www.archiplanet.org/wiki/Monterey_Bay_Aquarium
publishes an authoritative online Seafood Watch:
http://www.mbayaq.org/cr/seafoodwatch.asp
It's the best single source of seafood safety information I know of. It factors in both human health effects of consumption, and environmental impacts of "harvesting".
Both of which, as I see it, are important to care about!
So... given how many fish have been made terrbily scarce - are caught by devastating methods - or have concentrated the poisons we put out to the point of poisoning us back - I'm always interested in another good salmon recipe!
And keep protecting Alasaka, more and better, an area so big and inhospitable it is still mostly unspoiled, for the good of all of us. |
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