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Environment & Energy

DocwillCuNow

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2. Geez, we once taught that cigarettes promote digestion and a whole host of other things,

Reply to theHandpuppet (Original post)

Sat Aug 9, 2014, 06:48 AM

Aug 2014

PG and E told Erin Brockovich that hexavalent chromium was a nutrient, why don't we just consider mercury a nutrient as well, then everything will quiet down and people will think they are getting something for nothing when they eat tuna. Too bad mercury is the most potent neurotoxin known. I really think we should put it back in dental fillings, remember that argument?

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Mercury in the global ocean: three times more mercury in upper ocean since the Industrial Revolution [View all] theHandpuppet Aug 2014 OP

The ocean was once thought to be our fall back source of food. merrily Aug 2014 #1

Geez, we once taught that cigarettes promote digestion and a whole host of other things, DocwillCuNow Aug 2014 #2