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Originally Posted by ratherbe
So is just about everything else we consume - diet of water and organic beans and broccoli and you might possibly live forever!!!!!
Toxins in our waters come from ferts, acid rain, decomposing tires etc I assume?
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The source depends on the specific toxin.
For example, Mercury (or methyl mercury) mostly comes from the combustion of coal in power plants. It goes up as smoke, and then comes down with the rain.
It's a very low concentration in the water, but it works its way up the food chain. Plankton accumulates a little. Minnows that eat plankton have a bit more. Perch that eat minnows take on the mercury from all the minnows it has eaten. Largemouth bass eat ten pounds of forage for every one pound of body weight they gain, so they have A LOT of mercury in their bodies.
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