Don't eat your dog!

[LiberalEsto]

I wasn't planning to anyway, but...

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/features/mutts/blog/2008/04/is_your_pet_toxic.html

"The Environmental Working Group (EWG) has found that cats and dogs are polluted with even higher levels of many of the same synthetic industrial chemicals that researchers have recently found in people, including newborns.

An EWG study found dogs and cats were contaminated with 48 of 70 industrial chemicals tested, including 43 chemicals at levels higher than those typically found in people. The study tested blood and urine from 20 dogs and 40 cats.

Compared to the average levels found in humans in national studies, dogs had 2.4 times the amounts of stain-and grease-proof coatings (perfluorochemicals). Cats had 23 times more fire retardants (PBDEs), and more than 5 times the amounts of mercury."

[xchrom]

1. and don't set your cat on fire! -- fire retardents?!?!

recommend.

[kestrel91316]

12. Oh, BAD you.

:spank:

[TechBear_Seattle]

2. Human flesh would not meet food safety regulations

I remember a study put out in the early 1980s about how "long pig" would fail pretty much every food safety rule due to the amount and type of chemicals that make up so much of the human diet, not to mention all the environmental toxins from auto and factory emissions, chemicals seeping or directly added to drinking water, heavy metals, pesticides, etc., etc.

[LiberalEsto]

3. In that case, don't eat people either

We should all wear warning labels

[TechBear_Seattle]

5. I had an boyfriend once who used to joke...

That, after having grown up in a neighborhood latter discovered to have been built on mine tailing with toxic levels of heavy metals, California state law required that he carry a disclaimer: This product contains chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm. (Generally speaking, once heavy metals like mercury, lead and selenium enter the body, they are incorporated into tissue and stay there for as long as you live.)

[madokie]

10. that depends :evilgrin:

on ones definition of eating:evilgrin:

[Crunchy Frog]

4. I guess don't eat your newborn either then.

:shrug:

[LiberalEsto]

6. I'm a little too old for newborns

but I promise to leave the cats alone

:evilgrin:

[Crunchy Frog]

11. Too bad about that. They're yummy.

:9

[Dead_Parrot]

7. Dammit....

...An hour earlier, and we would've have been fine. Hey ho.

[bananas]

8. Oh no - we can't even use "Soylent Green" for food!

[LiberalEsto]

9. Warning: The Surgeon General

has determined that Soylent Green can be extremely hazardous to your health. On the bright side, it is rarely addictive.