This is a very interesting article about side contaminants in food as obesogens or compounds that help get obesity. Some of this in effect has to do with how the body would use a compound to impact hormone and use of nutrients for energy. As an example this would be such things as leaching certain plastics out of a tuna fish can lining separate from the plastic that is in tuna pouches. It also reflects such things as use of dyes in farm raised salmon to mimic the pink color the consumer expects in flesh from healthy salmon. This is similar to the use of saffron in feeds to industrial raised chickens to imitate the color to the skin wives expect to see when buying a chicken for the family. The saffron if left out would have a white skin to the chicken. In effect you get more ingredients in farm raised salmon for marketing reasons to appear to be more healthy than the wild level.
I was sorry to hear Captain Phil Harris had died of a stroke from the Cornelia Marie from the Discover Channel the Deadliest Catch after a close call seen on the show in a previous season. Its a hard dangerous life to be 53 and the skipper of a boat in the Bering Sea to get crabs to the American consumer's table. Its one of the reasons I respect the family farmer so much. I was saddened to hear the Amish and Mennonite communities in Christian County had been under attack by three robbers. To mean that is like killing a Mockingbird since those folks are hard working, generous, peace loving, and would have helped the robbers if they had come asking for aid. Its kind of like stealing from a church. I liked on article in the Kentucky New Era that said the punishment should be to have to work off the costs to those people since the Amish start early, work hard, live outside a lot, and work late at night. In such a life style, an urban thief would not do well I think. It is hard for those folks enough without being preyed on by someone able to work themselves. I have often found every thief is especially mad if they are robbed. I don't know if that is a measure of a feeling it is lack of professional respect as it were, but I have always been surprised by that kind of reaction when catching folks in environmental crimes.
Live long and prosper.
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