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Bill who putters wrote:
In article
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Billy wrote:
Also known as "Persistent Organic Pollutants" (POP). Much of this (PCB,
DDT, Dioxin) is in the oceans and is being concentrated by the plastic
waste that has found its way there over the last 50 years. As the
plastic breaks into smaller pieces, it is swallowed by small organisms,
and sent straight up the food chain to the top predator, us.
Not trying to overwhelm you but,
"The World Without Us" by Alan Weisman,
http://www.amazon.com/World-Without-...1C2E0QK/ref=sr
_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1283966354&sr=1-1
is another real "page turner".
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This URL deals with weight loss and increasing POP'S stored in fat
entering the blood stream.
Sort of reminds me of dammed if you do dammed if you don't.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_1...-10391704.html
http://mutage.oxfordjournals.org/con...utage.geq035.a
bstract
Low-dose persistent organic pollutants increased telomere length in
peripheral leukocytes of healthy Koreans
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- Billy
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the
merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini.
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/7/2/maude
http://english.aljazeera.net/video/m...515308172.html