Arsenic in Chicken

[liveonearth]

About a year ago I had my hair tested and found out that I have above "normal" mercury levels (I think because I eat sashimi) and even higher levels of arsenic in my body. Someone told me that I could have gotten the arsenic in my body from the chicken that I ate, but at the time I didn't find anything online about it. I checked my water sources and it wasn't in there. I learned that you can get arsenic poisoning from automotive smog, and I do live in a Dell downwind of two interstate highways.

Today Mercola has an article up about arsenic poisoning in chicken: it may be common.

http://v.mercola.com/blogs/public_blog/Is-the-Chicken-You-Eat-Poisoned-With-Arsenic--10528.aspx

Comments

[liveonearth.livejournal.com]

Interesting thoughts. I agree that soot on the ice is exacerbating the melting, and I don't know how much mercury is in the soot, or what it takes to turn it to ethyl mercury which is the dangerous form. I do know that the fish near the poles are the least contaminated--that has been tested a lot--so it's not in the water and food chain as much up there yet. Your theory could be true. We'll know as soon as the polar ice caps melt.