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Environmental Human Rights & Justice: Killing The Inuit & Culture

According to the Quebec Health Center, a concentration of 1,052 parts per billion of PCBs has been found in Arctic women's milk fat. This compares to a reading of 7,002 in polar bear fat, 1,002 ppb in whale blubber, 527 ppb in seal blubber, and 152 ppb in fish. The United States Environmental Protection Agency safety standard for edible poultry, by contrast, is 3 ppb, and in fish, 2 ppb. At 50 ppb, soil is often considered to be hazardous waste."

Not surprisingly, Inuit babies now have serious health problems, with "strikingly high rates of meningitis, bronchitis, pneumonia and other infections," chronic hearing loss, life-threatening meningitis and dysfunctional immune systems.

The sources of the discharges have been traced back to US, Canada and Mexico, which release pollutants and toxins into our environment, and then the poisons are carried north by sea currents and weather patterns.

Now the Inuit are warned to change from their traditional healthy diet to a diet of store-bought food to avoid reduced fertility, genetic damage and deformities in children. While their traditional diet has protected them from health problems associated with industrialized nations, now the Inuit are becoming ill with heart disease, diabetes and obesity.

It's sad that ppl (especially some vegetarians) continue to blame fish protein for poor health when it's caused by other obvious factors .