ALL FISH TOXIC - MERCURY CONTAMINATION RAMPANT

The fish are toxic, not some of the fish, as if we could tell the toxic fish from the non-toxic fish, but ALL FISH tested had mercury in contaminiation. If the fish living in the water we drink are contaminated doesn't it make sense that the water is contaminated. What are the short and long term ramifications of drinking the water? Bottled water in plastic containers is not any safer according to reports, and worse some of the bottled water sold has been exposed as simple tap water.

No fish can escape mercury pollution. That's the take-home message from a federal study of mercury contamination released Wednesday that tested fish from nearly 300 streams across the country.

The toxic substance was found in every fish sampled, a finding that underscores how widespread mercury pollution has become.
Research has shown mercury in fish from isolated areas of Alaska and Canada, and species that live in the deep ocean.

Mercury was also found in high concentrations in western streams that drain areas mined for mercury and gold.

A new research published in the "Journal of Aquatic Animal Health" has made a step closer to find out why so many male small-mouth bass in the Potomac River basin produce immature female egg cells in their testes, a type of artificially-induced hermaphrodism or intersex, called testicular oocytes (TO).

TO has been signaled in other rivers and in other species too: spot-tail shiners in the St. Lawrence River, white suckers in Colorado, shovelnose sturgeon in the Mississippi, white perch from the Great Lakes, roach in the U.K and Denmark, sharp-tooth catfish in South Africa, three-spine stickleback in Germany, and barbel in Italy, but also in marine and estuarine species in Japan, the UK and the Mediterranean.

In many places, this has been connected to known or suspected human-originated endocrine disrupting contaminants, usually mimicking estrogens (female sex hormones) coming from untreated standard sewages and runoff from farms. The source of these chemicals are birth control pills and hormone replacements, pesticides, fertilizers and synthetic hormones from farm animals.

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[ATRAINC]

@jjlinert Farmed salmon is the safest fish to eat. All others are a risk

factor. Too many chemicals and toxins in ourn food supply.

Cancer rates are going up becuase of this.

[jjlinert]

The vegan or at least vegetarian lifestyle is the way to go. Who wants toxins, mercury, lead, radioactive fallout and radiation waste, industrial waste, hospital waste, pesticides, farm run off, sewage, germs, and stink in their food? The omega 3's in fish aren't worth the risk, because these toxins tend to stay in the body's fat cells for life and cause problems sometimes. GO VEG!!!

[MisticalWater]

hmmm Im still eating fish :/ ut yea... well said bro.. well said

[jamamanjamh13]

SOme of the mercury is coming from coal burning power plants.

[thegoshenproject77]

it would seem wise to change to a vegan lifestyle

[tgz1000]

I'd rather take my chances with mercury in fish than eat diseased cows with mad cow disease that have been fed parts of other dead cattle and plastic pellets.

[fetymann]

that test he talked about can be found here...

epa . gov/waterscience/fish/study/re­sults.htm#data

...ocean fish are just as bad.

[jdawgjayj]

Tell the Japanese to stay off our shores netting the salmon in mass quantities. They hunt near extinct whales!

[jdawgjayj]

The truth is mercury is natural. But mining in the Past caused much higher levels. In the 1800's they didn't know the dangers. Mercury was actually drank by many to cure diseases! The small scale mining done by current prospectors removes mercury from streams. They also remove the lead, brought in by fishers, which erodes during winter floods and becomes scattered.

Mining now reduces the quantity of mercury in the system. But its a battle with earth as mercury is naturally occuring.

[AleronNightshade]

so fish had absolutely no mercury what 50 years ago?.... I almost think they naturally have some mercury. He even said in the vid that he didn't look up statistics. Maybe we need more info before freaking out about fish. Beef naturally has iron in it... OMG maybe pollution put iron in the beef!!! we can't eat cows because they will poison us too. Oh god oh god help we cant eat veggies either because it is grown in dirt...eew imagine the dirt levels in veggies.... I guess we will all die now.