All Fish Tested from U.S. Streams Found Contaminated with Mercury

Thats retarded, heavy metals never really leave the body.

I'm fairly sure that mercury will leave the body eventually but this "You can eat 5 pounds of fish every day for your lifetime and never reach the TRUE uncushioned levels and have any ill effects." isn't true, unless you're also a robot. And by the way, that website is clearly funded by the food industry if you didn't happen to notice it's extremely biased point of view. They're downplaying everything because they want you to buy more fish (obviously).

There has never been a single case in the USA of anyone getting mercury poisoning from commercially available fish.
http://www.r-word.org/
Cooper needs the above link. BADLY

You have any references for that claim other than some retarded website that has nothing to do with this?

Hah, see what I did there?

--------" What you must understand is ........."--------

What YOU must understand is that mercury(and other heavy metals such as lead) is concentrated in brain and nerve cells. All other cells in the body regenerate, nerve and brain cells do not. What you got is all you got----if you lose 'em, you won't ever get them back.

Any mercury is hazardous, even very small doses. Once there is enough to see symptoms, that's it, even if any further deterioration is avoided by removing exposure---the symptoms are permanent and can never be reversed.

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Thanks for this information!

Sad, isn't it?

Mercury concentrates in nuerologic tissues---primarily the brain and spinal cord. The most evident early symptoms are dementia and tremors. Nerve damage is permanent and irreversible.

It was first described in the 1840s among hat makers in London, England, who were exposed to mercury compounds used to treat animal fur the felt was made from. Hence, the term, Mad as a Hatter. Which later found its way into the Lewis Carroll novel, "Alice In Wonderland" in the Mad Hatter character.

Thanks for the reference, especially the Mad Hatter reference. Makes perfect sense! Now you just wash the wool in the washer with soap and very hot water to felt it.
Makes you wonder how people figured out what chemicals did what to get certain results. Most were probably serendipitous, and the person just took off on it as a way to sell the results. One multimillionaire found out how to make coke from the waste he was hauling down the river near Connelsville, PA. He pulled his barge over to eat with some other workers on the side of the river. The barge sitting there at the rivers edge caught on fire and they all jumped up to douse it wth river water and Lo and Behold coke was the result! He became rich in coke production used in the manufacturing of iron and steel! Every where there's a coal mine here in SW PA there are remnants of brick coke ovens. They were a great place to live in for homeless people during the great depression.
I know we have a big glass manufacturing area here in SW PA, and there are different problems with jobs related to it. People that painted lamps and dishes had different reactions to the turpentine and other chemicals used. The gold used to decorate caused systemic problems especially when doing details the workers would constantly use their lips to get a point on the brush to do fine gold work.... poisonous!

Addendum to my reply: the coal in the barge caught on fire from embers of the fire the workers had built near the river to cook on and to get warm.

Almond milk. Yes, I know it sounds crazy but there is such a thing. Check Trader Joes or Whole Foods if you have one near you. I also think there is rice milk.

I'm also off fish. Not just for the mercury but from pcb's and plastic. I was reading an article a few days ago (can't find the link this second) but it was talking about the Pacific and Atlantic plastic garbage gyres. According to some research done last year, fish in those areas are ingesting small pieces of plastic. We don't eat those fish. But we do eat the fish that eat them.

I got off meat and chicken too because of all the chemicals, etc in their feed.

It sucks what we've done to our food system. I am an omnivore gone mostly vegan to avoid all the chemicals that are making people sick. The only thing I can't totally give up are eggs. The rest of it, knowing what's in it now, just turns me off.

i'm in your boat dude..

also

HEMP milk, it's really good and it's very good for you.

For a real mish-mosh of information, try checking out:
http://current.com/groups/veganism

Also, there is one helluva great website that you might want to peruse:
www.veganpeace.com

Yep, there is also rice milk, and that's also available at Trader Joe's and Whole Foods Market.

Samuaraidave//I just when in to your page and I love your articles/// We are in very similar situations just different countries:d/// thanks

well, I imagine Long John Silvers doesn't go fishing in U.S. streams for its product

hahahahahah //u r brilliant :d

there's nothing better than a fish taco (insider)

clever

Ehicalvegan, I'm on my way but the onyl thing I can't give up are eggs. The rest of it, learning what's in it, I see no reason I'd want to eat it. Everyone I know who is vegan looks 10 years younger than their age and they just don't get sick.

Actually, that tends to be true. No one who meets me comes close to guessing my true age, which is kind of fun. I'm not vain, but it is fun when people react.

No apologies necessary about the eggs. I try my damndest not to judge people on what they eat but, if they ASK me about being a vegan, I'm pleased to explain my reasons. My best friend can't sit at the same table with non-vegans. I'm okay about it, as long as the meat-eaters don't pressure me with questions or condemnation (as is usually the case).

I'll trust that you were only being sarcastic because surely, with your intelligence, you knew what I meant.

if this is hell then what some will encounter after the second coming of Christ will make our definition of horror look like the disney channel.

that "some" will encounter? There is no single consensus on what might happen when the mythical bearded white man from space comes back from the other dimension.

Read up about the people who live around Lake Victoria in Tanzania. THAT is hell.

Or the kids living in Uganda now... with young kids being sacrificed for power and money!