Arctic Birds are Contaminated with Pesticides and Heavy Metals

Arctic Birds are Contaminated with Pesticides and Heavy Metals
Saturday, June 26, 2010 by: Kim Evans, citizen journalist







(NaturalNews) On an isolated island high in the Arctic, biologists recently tested the toxicity of birds by testing their droppings. The conclusion? The birds' poop was loaded with environmental poisons. In these remote birds, they found high concentrations of pesticides and heavy metals including lead, mercury, aluminum and cadmium. The source of these poisons was determined to be the birds' diet of fish and shellfish and the source of the pollution of the fish and shellfish was human pollution. After these toxins were released via their excrement, they were recycled onto the earth producing toxic and contaminated areas.

The testing was done in a remote, isolated area far from industrial and agricultural pollution. In fact, there is little industry and few people anywhere close by. However, over 45 years ago atomic weapon testing was done in the area.

The media is reporting that the people who are eating the eggs of the birds are perfectly safe, but the birds' eggs weren't even tested. And if the birds' droppings contain elevated levels of these contaminants, so do the birds - and the birds' eggs. Eating mercury, lead, cadmium and aluminum is never safe and since these are in birds from isolated areas of the Arctic, it's curious to wonder what contaminants are in birds from more populated industrialized areas. Since the birds obtained these toxic poisons from the fish and shellfish they ate, it's also safe to assume that fish from less isolated areas - closer to industries and toxic agricultural runoff - are equally as polluted and likely far more so. Yet, many people are eating those fish regularly - and their poisons too.

The lesson: If we don't protect our environment, we end up eating all of the toxic poisons that are routinely dumped on the earth - and this is the case, no matter how isolated we are. Unfortunately, the Gulf spill and all the pollutants that are being dumped in the water along with the oil are about to make the situation far worse than most of us can imagine.

More:
http://www.canada.com/Arctic%20bird...
http://www.pnas.org/content/107/23/...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolu...