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velifer390 karma

You'll see Trump's tax returns before this question gets an honest answer.

velifer44 karma

Any amount can cause health problems

Simply not the case.

Even in your OP, the post says "significant" instead of "detectable." You're abusing language to sensationalize the issues, and losing credibility with anyone who has any background in environmental toxicology, which would include the people at the agencies you're expecting to do something.

The more you eat of a given food, the more metals from that food build up in your system.

This is a high-school level of understanding of biomagnification. It doesn't work like that.

There is a story here, as there are some baby foods tested that had heavy metal limits above what the EPA has set for drinking water. That's not a health crisis, as no baby is sucking down liters of the same baby food every day, but it is something that should get more attention.

But stop.

This is why scientists hate journalists.

Stop sensationalizing it. Stop overselling your findings.

You sent some samples to a lab. You got results.

You can pander to your readers and maybe even some legislators, but you'll get ridiculed and ignored by the regulators and industry.

But you're more about page clicks than public health anyway...

velifer37 karma

Migratory Bird Treaty Act 16 U.S.C. ยง 703-711 says you can't "harass" them. The real teeth is that you can't "harm" them either, and that word in a few environmental laws has been interpreted by the courts very broadly and is why we have any environmental protections at all.

You can distract them with better food...

velifer28 karma

Why is there so much desire for bisexual females but so much hate for bisexual males in the swinger community?

velifer10 karma

In Latin, abbreviations were made with a slash through the letter. R with a slash looks like Rx, short for recipio, and still used today. The letter then x stuck with modern typesetting. Dx is an abbreviation for distance.