but this is something that's hitting people where they live. it's our tuna-noodle childhoods they're destroying. no, ours are but a memory; it's our kids' and grandkids' lives they ARE destroying. so MoveOn, Environmental Defense, NRDC, every environmental organization i belong to or whose website i visit online is working on this mercury thing.
if you'd like to learn some of the startling facts, NRDC has a chart showing how much tuna is safe to eat, based on body weight. not many sandwiches will be happening for most elementary school kids whose mothers are paying attention. Environmental Defense has figures and tables of mercury emissions, air - land - and water, for all the states in the union (Texas is outstanding in this field, thanks to the previous governor of that state helping out his energy buddies there), scary stuff. They also have a lengthy report available in pdf format called "Out of Control and Close to Home" which i've downloaded but not yet read.
it's a sad scary world when tuna-noodle cassarole, cheap protein for many families, is a toxic shock. even scarier that it should have to take a huge effort to get those responsible for our safety to care enough to protect our nation's children.
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This was front page news just below the fold in the LA Times over the weekend. It was enough to make me ill EVEN without eating tuna. It seems government agencies are running out of control and forgotten their moral charge, i.e. to protect the public's interest. So now I can't eat meat because of mad cow and tuna because of mercury, I'm seriously considering planting my own food!
Excellent series and commentary, as always.
I guess I am glad my children won't touch fish - in any form. But it is a disgrace that the health and well being of our children is not top priority.
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