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10/05/2008 Archived Entry: "Why do those who want to save the earth have to be such nut jobs"

So I get into a discussion with another tree hugging hippie who give liberals a bad name.

This time it was that mercury in chicken feed was at dangerously high levels from the fish meal processed in the feed.
I am skeptic first. So I said I don't think so. And of course because I am not willing to buy the PETA dribble right off the back. I am suppose to be the one who is stupid and uninformed. Okay uninformed maybe but I can at least look for some real research.

Well here are a couple of things. Fish meal is not a majority item in poultry feed and and only the commercial farms really use poultry feed that has fish meal in it and it is usually less than 25% of the total ingredients. And then the levels of mercury are so low that they don't pose much of a threat.

Of course if you are still concerned after that yu can do what I do. Buy free range or organic fed chickens. Then you don't have to worry.

http://www.vri.cz/docs/vetmed/52-12-547.pdf
From the report:
This means that the Hg concentration in the body decreases with the age. The level of mercury in chickens fed by common type of feed mixture can-not endanger consumers.

Now if you want to discuss arsenic then you might have a case.