Anglers will compete this weekend to catch breeding fish that will be swimming upstream through areas some say should be a federal Superfund site.
Despite advisories that warn people to avoid contact with river sediments and consuming locally caught fish, thousands are expected to participate this weekend in a Dow Chemical-sponsored walleye festival along the Tittabawassee and Saginaw rivers, where the watershed has been contaminated with harmful dioxin and other toxic substances.
And just as the Michigan Department of Community Health is warning that children and pre-menopausal women should mostly avoid eating river fish including walleye because of contamination from polychlorinated biphenyls and dioxin, organizers of the festival say they plan to donate walleye fillets to a local food bank.
I am not an expert but I don’t think this is a particularly smart idea.
More on this story can be found here:
and here also:
http://gaia-health.com/articles/000046-Contaminated-Fish-Dow-Dioxin.shtml
18 Comments
May 8, 2009 at 9:52 am
Well I guess that’s one fix to the poverty problem, feed them poisoned fish!
May 8, 2009 at 10:18 am
Polychlorinated biphenyls and dioxin, now that’s good eatin’.
May 8, 2009 at 11:35 am
haha, too funny, Pat Buchanan just predicted a 30 seat pick up for the repugs in the 2010 election. Whatever he’s smoking, I want some!
May 8, 2009 at 11:47 am
Very cool on the prez appointing Jill Biden to a head up a committee on increased access for people to community colleges for further training! Very cool!
May 8, 2009 at 11:49 am
Maybe Buchanan is eating Saginaw Walleye.
May 8, 2009 at 12:33 pm
Words Designed to Kill Health Care Reform
Sen. Jeff Merkley
U.S. Senator from Oregon
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-merkley/words-designed-to-kill-he_b_199373.html
May 8, 2009 at 7:30 pm
well this is a happenin’ place today.
Fixing the usual salmon dinner; no PCBs that I know of.
We had a sunny day today without rain; first non-rainy day in about 8. Got a good walk in the rain in yesterday; loved it.
White House military director has resigned after that flyover. Sad end to a career, and embarrassing for him. Pretty amazing no one thought to alert New Yorkers; seeing a big plane in an unusual place in the Washington area is cause enough for comment.
May 8, 2009 at 7:36 pm
I’m really starting to wonder what’s up with Cheney. Mostly in a hidden-location for the last eight years, presumably behind the curtain manipulating the levers, now you can’t shut him up.
There was some weird kind of transformation when he became veep. To keep on today’s thread, spawning walleye swimming upstream through polluted waters may be a good metaphor for what’s happened with Cheney.
May 8, 2009 at 7:39 pm
Great…just when I double my money on Dow Stock…guess I am in the BC doghouse now!
May 8, 2009 at 8:08 pm
Steve just don’t let them pay your dividends in Walleye
May 8, 2009 at 8:24 pm
going to be a quiet weekend dog, both nanny and doots are away and burrito is dealing with a friend in crisis.
May 8, 2009 at 10:14 pm
MoveOn moves against Specter
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22276.html
May 9, 2009 at 7:31 am
Good morning troops. saw Craig on Olbermann last night. Man, it makes me sad to see him. He sure is a good writer. I just hate how things turned out and let me make clear to any lurkers out there that i am only speaking for me. Also, unlike my usual posts about such things, I mean that one from the bottom of my heart.
Haven’t been much in the political mode.
As most of you know from being buds with me I have a Granbddaughter on the way and I am trying to finish the school year, but I am running on fumes.
I will be in and out this weekend. I will try to keep the fires burning as best as I can.
May 9, 2009 at 7:32 am
Why should Specter get a free pass? If he gets a challenger then so be it.
May 9, 2009 at 8:35 am
Morning all. Beautiful one in Virginia; feels like it could get hot.
May 9, 2009 at 11:05 am
Back from the garden and checking in…..going to be nap time soon. By the way my investment in Dow has given me a good return. I wish they would be more responsible though
May 9, 2009 at 11:32 am
Steve,
If you bought DOW in March, SELL! That Rohm & Haas debacle was a mess. Their bonds are two levels above junk. And those new 130 million shares should dilute the P/E.
Just my $0.02
BTW, great news about the forthcoming grandbaby.
May 9, 2009 at 11:33 am
Morning peeps, new thread
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