Keebler
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- Well, this is certainly most distressing. You'd think stuff in the ocean might be very diluted but this indicates that there is far more toxicity than what can be adequately diluted. And pollution affects the entire earth & oceans. It does not stay in one place.
If its in the air, it gets into the waterways. If its in the waterways, it gets into our rain, etc. If it's in our soil, it gets into our water.
Mercury, Cadmium - brain / neurological damage in 21 dead whales -- and reference to human level equivalents.
The importance of selenium in mammals, too. Two brazil nuts a day, say, for one's "first" breakfast. A good reminder that we all might want to check our diets to be sure we have the right amount of selenium (not too much, though).
Many LLMDs and LL NDs have long been strong voices for the need for heavy metal assessment and reparation measures we might include in any protocol.
Also huge implications for all fish we might consider eating . . . and to consider ways we can help stop ocean & food chain pollution by our purchasing choices and other actions. What we wash down our drains can get into our brains, essentially.
Hair dyes come to mind, too. Some pretty grisly chemicals there that can soak into scalps but also then get back at us from the waterways where they are sent.
BBC - 11 February 2016 -
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Keebler
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- Just this week, there have been findings that some very high levels of cadmium and arsenic in the air in my city, from two art glass operations.
Neither of these are huge buildings and, in both cases, the emissions are within the law - but the readings are clearly off the charts in the danger zone for some areas nearby, where people live and kids go to schools. Soil testing being done. I image there are many home gardens in those neighborhoods.
Funny, I was just thinking that I was glad I live just outside of the "orange" zone on the map - but then so did all those whales that died with cadmium & mercury in their brains. -
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poppy
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The higher up the food chain, the more this stuff is concentrated from what the animal has eaten.
The pilot whale feeds primarily on squid, although it's known to eat octopus, cuttlefish, herring and other small fish when squid is unavailable.
I am wondering also if the mercury that is part of the coal burning power plants emissions are leaving the land and being washed into the ocean.
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