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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (510285)	12/15/2003 2:30:36 PM
From: Skywatcher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Don't PUT LETTUCE ON THAT SANDWICH....!!!!!! December 11, 2003 \| Pentagon: Rocket Fuel in Your Lettuce is Safe Put down the salad fork and back away slowly. If you're eating lettuce grown in the U.S. at this time of year, chances are it's dressed with more than vinaigrette. Perchlorate, a rocket fuel additive, has been found to accumulate in leafy greens irrigated from the Colorado River -- as nearly all the nation's winter lettuce is.[1] Drinking water from the Colorado River and at least 22 states is contaminated with the rocket fuel ingredient, a toxin that can impair thyroid function and cause tumors, cancer and decreased learning ability in children.[2] The toxin has shown up in milk too, from cows that drink perchlorate-tainted water.[3] Since the rocket fuel chemical comes largely from military sites, cleaning it up could cost the Defense Department billions. So the Pentagon has launched an attack on a national drinking water standard proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency, which would require cleanup of drinking water tainted with more than 1 part per billion of perchlorate. The Pentagon argues it's a matter of national security. "Every additional layer of science-policy precaution ... comes at the expense of the (Defense) Department's ability to acquire and test propulsion and weapons systems," Air Force Col. Daniel Rogers said.[4] To halt the EPA's perchlorate review process, the Bush Administration has decreed that the issue needs further study and asked the National Academy of Sciences to review the EPA proposal. The review is expected to take 15 months; the panel will hold its second public hearing Dec. 12 and 13 in Irvine, Calif.[5] "It's nothing but a stalling tactic. Perchlorate has been intensively studied for more than 15 years, and the evidence keeps pointing to lower and lower levels as hazardous to health," Bill Walker, West Coast vice president of Environmental Working Group, tells BushGreenwatch. "We may not know everything we need to know about perchlorate, but we know enough that we should set a drinking water standard." This is one environmental hazard that could hit President Bush where he lives. Walker says geologists suspect that Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas, may well get its water from a reservoir contaminated by perchlorate from the nearby Naval Weapons Industrial Reserve Plant. CC

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (510285)	12/15/2003 2:33:15 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

You just need to limit your Tuna intake to two sandwiches if your pregnant. You know, to protect the unborn FETUS.

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (510285)	12/15/2003 4:11:19 PM
From: JDN	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

I am not sure we even know where this mercury is coming from. I live in S. Fla. we have absolute NO HEAVY industry here YET mercury levels are VERY HIGH in the Everglades, so high that we are told NOT to eat the fish caught in say Lake Okeechobee or the many canals. Some feel it comes from Cow waste, but no one has yet been able to prove where its coming from. jdn

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (510285)	12/15/2003 5:09:30 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 769667

<<I heard on the news that we should limit our tuna intake to two sandwiches per week. Wow, the mercury levels are that high? Why do big companies want to pollute our environment?>> Mercury isn't something that's made by big companies, it's a naturally occurring element and was once used as a cure for syphilis. A local family bought a fishing/resort camp in Northern Ontario, way north of any industries and even neighbors, in the early 70s before they checked for Mercury. After a couple of years the health department put a eat no fish on the lake they were on. A NATURAL Mercury deposit was under the lake they were on and under the lakes around them. They now have to fly in fish for the fish dinners.