Tim Tyler writes
In uk.rec.gardening Oz wrote:
: Tim Tyler writes
:In uk.rec.gardening Michael Saunby wrote:

:: All in all it's better to eat meat - animals generally defend themselves by
:: running away rather than producing toxins, so all you need is a means of
:: catching them.
:
:Not logical. You can't conclude it's better to eat meat because it can
:run away.

: I see you have missed the point completely.

The point was apparently:

Assertion: "All in all it's better to eat meat"
Justification: "animals generally defend themselves by running away
rather than producing toxins"

A dumb syllogism with a false conclusion.

It's a fact that toxin levels are lower in meats than vegetables.
However I suspect this goes against your religion.

:Meat is higher up the food chain for one thing - and thus will concentrate
:environmental toxins.

: But not pesticides, because they are biodegradeable - a requirement.

Please don't publicly spout mis-information like this on health topics.

It is in fact true.

An estimated 88% of all pesticide residues resident in food are found in
meat and dairy products.

Factually incorrect.

Numerous pesticides are concentrated in animal fat.

No, just DDT.

``Beyond reflecting long-term energy balance, [adipose] tissue offers a
relatively stable depot of triglyceride and fat-soluble substances, such
as fat-soluble vitamins, and pesticides. As a tissue it represents the
greatest reservoir of carotenoids in the body.

Carotenoids are, of course, natural. Carrots are full of them and at
MUCH higher levels than you find outside polar bear liver. They are, I
agree, toxic.

Halogenated hydrocarbons
may be measured in concentrations of hundreds-fold greater than those in
blood of the same individuals.''

DDT, there you go. Banned in the early 70's.

"Halogenated hydrocarbons" are typically pesticides and herbicides.

Not modern ones (ie post early-mid 70's).

Please try to keep up to date, say within the last 20 years or so.

It's not hard.

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Oz
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