High Mercury Levels Are Found in Tuna Sushi »
Posted By Neophile 8 months, 3 weeks ago in StyleRecent laboratory tests found so much mercury in tuna sushi from 20 Manhattan stores and restaurants that at most of them, a regular diet of six pieces a week would exceed the levels considered acceptable by the Environmental Protection Agency.
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saintetienne8 months, 3 weeks ago
"I'll probably have to be tested for mercury levels in my body."
Well, that would explain your addled brain.
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Blackadder19648 months, 3 weeks ago
Charlston a few times a month is probably not a problem. This is a world wide problem, The Goverenment here (Australia) have been warning us not to have fish more than 3 times a week, for years, because of Mercury, it builds up in the fish over time, so is a problem in any large or long lived fish e.g.(Tuna, Shark or Orange Roughy (this may called something else in the states) which can live a 100 years.
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Teech8 months, 3 weeks ago
...."Industrial waste entering the food chain at the bottom...."
Yup! But, fortunately we have had an administration for the past seven years that wisely dismantled all those stupid, Clinton era environmental protections that once prohibited the dumping of industrial wastes into our oceans and waterways. Thank God we have a business wise administration that understands that my company profits are more important than your damn tuna! Eat my company's processed foods instead! They are high in nitrates, preservatives, processed animal parts, toxic chemicals, sugars, sodium and fats. Our products are packaged in China so we can avoid paying high wages to greedy, non-productive American workers who also want safe working conditions, medical, and pension benefits. The nerve! Damned ingrates!
Being permitted now, LEGALLY, to dump in waterways allows me more money in profits to trickle down to you! That's a good thing for you! Vote Republican in 2008! I need the money!
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earthlingerer8 months, 3 weeks ago
On the front page it said "Mercury in Tuna".
If you really love tuna, you've got to get some kind of chelating agent to take regularly, just to be on the safe side.
But, when mercury is in tuna, and the big dipper is near uranus during a full moon...
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joeblowe8 months, 3 weeks ago
This bothers me not at all. I have a deal with King Neptune: I don't eat his subjects up here, they don't eat me down there. So far this has worked out perfectly well.
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crespi8 months, 3 weeks ago
Minamata disease. Severe birth defects caused by methyl mercury poisoning. Minamata City, Japan, 1956.
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lvrofwolves8 months, 3 weeks ago
I think I read somewhere that Abacore has the highest levels of mercury because they are big fish, the smaller the fish the lower the levels. Albacore is the best tuna I think tho- taste wise.
yes! http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=...
'The five most commonly eaten types of seafood low in mercury are shrimp, chunk light canned tuna, salmon, catfish and pollack, which is frequently used in frozen fish sticks.'
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saintetienne8 months, 3 weeks ago
Excuse me. I hate to barge in on your Chicken Little Pity Us All Party, but is any of this actually NEWS to you people? The FDA has been screaming about this for DECADES. Since at LEAST the mid-eighties, they've been warning us of high mercury levels in fish. They've also been saying that it's NOT A DANGER with most people - - only those who have nothing else in their diet besides tuna. Or pregnant women, because the mercury could harm the fetus.
If it's not coffee causing cancer, it's e coli in meat. If it's not salmonella it's mercury in tuna....
Get a grip, people. Enjoy nutritious foods IN MODERATION, and you'll be fine. Sheesh....do you people just always need SOMETHING to panic and whine about? I suppose this is all Bush's fault, too, even though it's been around for years and years before he was president.
Ah the loonies on Nutscape. Always good for a laugh....
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saintetienne8 months, 3 weeks ago
"Isn't it mercury that is in these new bulbs Al wants us to use?"
Thank you for bringing that up, Simon, because nobody else ever does.
Yes, the hideously ugly fluorescent bulbs, that look like a soft-serve ice cream cone and give off an acrid, greenish light that makes everyone look like Lily Munster, and are being FORCED upon us by liberal politicians, are LOADED with mercury that will seep into the environment by the tons, and eventually come back to us in our tuna sushi.
But hey - - Al Bore won an Oscar and a Nobel prize, so he MUST be right, right? I think he deserves a nice, expensive sushi dinner, by candlelight. No, make that fluorescent light. In fluorescent light, HIS pasty skin actually appears NORMAL.
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globalwarmer8 months, 3 weeks ago
True, there is mercury in them, some brands more than others and the difficult thing to grasp is the need for a haz mat team in your house should you break one of these beauties. But on the bright side, they don't make your skin look green anymore, thats a thing of the past. Hopefully LED technology will continue to grow and become affordable.
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tanglang8 months, 3 weeks ago
HA! AlphaGnosis finally gets to neg one of Neo's submissions. That's just freakin sweet.
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saintetienne8 months, 3 weeks ago
Unfortunately for you, aceofdumbasses, most waitresses - yea, most EVERYone - continues to think of you as a RECTAL thermometer.
I think it has something to do with always having your head up your ass, but upon closer observation, it could be because of any number of reasons.
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gallaszx3 months, 3 weeks ago
Although the samples were gathered in New York City, experts believe similar results would be observed elsewhere.
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