Eating one wild fish same as month of drinking tainted water in U.S.: study

The report does not surprise me. The other day our 8yo boy asked about going swimming in a nearby reservoir this summer and all I could think about are the brain eating amoeba that has killed kids swimming in freshwater lakes and the algae that kills dogs in less than an hour after exposure, something known to infest that lake in the summer.

Great job unrestrained development and sales of PFAS has poisoned the planet for future generations, similar to how plastic was invented and spread everywhere.

The report does not surprise me. The other day our 8yo boy asked about going swimming in a nearby reservoir this summer and all I could think about are the brain eating amoeba that has killed kids swimming in freshwater lakes and the algae that kills dogs in less than an hour after exposure, something known to infest that lake in the summer.

Wow. Sounds like something out of Stephen King's Creepshow

Plastics were a fundamental catalyst for everything from food safety and poverty reduction to gender equality. And there is risk/reward in everything, from Covid to plastic to fish.

You won't live forever if you dodge every nanothreat. But you may well ruin your life trying.

Scientists can find danger anywhere, because there is risk everywhere. And like politicians, as anyone in academic science will tell you, they each have their own agenda. If you removed food products from your diet when there was a scare story about them, you would have starved long ago.

Seems to me that the American government puts more emphasis on corporate profits than it does on the public welfare. Government regulations should be used to protect the people, and not just profits for the 1%.

Wow. Sounds like something out of Stephen King's Creepshow

Truth is stranger than fiction:

https://iheartdogs.com/lake-algae-toxic-to-dogs-may-be-forming-in-us/

https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/toxic-algal-blooms-detected-big-bear-lake-lake-isabella/

https://www.webmd.com/brain/brain-eating-amoeba

Rachel Carlson's "Silent Spring" was published almost 60 years ago to the day.

In the broad scheme of things, while progress on the danger of chemicals has been made, the ongoing poisons for profit mentality of Inc and the wink wink of govts is quite breathtaking.

The 20th / 21st Cs will be told in history as the era of a number of puzzling things - World War Killing fields for one and the Global Killing fields of citizens by Industro-chemical products, most of which have been produced to make life more "Modern & Easier"..

Quite insane really.

Still probably better than eating the processed garbage the average modern day American consumes.