Delta4Embassy
Gold Member
Having a nice chat with the rental office manager here yesterday, ocean contamination came up as I commented on her love of lobster. This morning, this on my mind still (wanting to make her something with lobster, sans contamination if possible,) my thoughts turned to the innoculation scare re: autism.
While we weren't calling autism "autism" for quite a while, and that'd make it difficult to identify exactly when such cases began to rise, I would think moreso than childhood immunizations, our consumption of seafood is more likely to blame as regular consumption of mercury-contaminated seafood would amount to much more mercury than a few shots. Plus, the mercury in some shots isn't the same kind of mercury in a contaminated seafood item.
The US government doesn't forbid mercury in seafood, rather it bans higher amounts of it, while allowing smaller "safe" amounts. But I wonder if these small amounts, seemingly harmless to the actual consumer are doing harm to our reproductive systems and any offspring they then make. Perhaps mercury is like radiation and can alter DNA/genes resulting in things like autism, and/or the effect is cumulative (adding up over time) and thus no amount is safe. Or rather, small amounts might not result in a noticeable effect on the consumer, but in their DNA it's doing something.
This is just speculative, but wanted to share my thoughts.
While we weren't calling autism "autism" for quite a while, and that'd make it difficult to identify exactly when such cases began to rise, I would think moreso than childhood immunizations, our consumption of seafood is more likely to blame as regular consumption of mercury-contaminated seafood would amount to much more mercury than a few shots. Plus, the mercury in some shots isn't the same kind of mercury in a contaminated seafood item.
The US government doesn't forbid mercury in seafood, rather it bans higher amounts of it, while allowing smaller "safe" amounts. But I wonder if these small amounts, seemingly harmless to the actual consumer are doing harm to our reproductive systems and any offspring they then make. Perhaps mercury is like radiation and can alter DNA/genes resulting in things like autism, and/or the effect is cumulative (adding up over time) and thus no amount is safe. Or rather, small amounts might not result in a noticeable effect on the consumer, but in their DNA it's doing something.
This is just speculative, but wanted to share my thoughts.