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Inuits in Greenland are being poisioned by their previously safe traditional diet :

Researchers have for the first time documented “unacceptable levels” of man-made environmental toxins in the Inuit population of Greenland. […] There is little doubt the toxins originate from the traditional local diet of polar bears, seals and whales […] The toxins accumulate in animals high up in the food chain, and especially in marine mammals. […] Greenland generates no notable pollution itself, and the Inuit population are in effect suffering from toxins produced elsewhere, by the world’s most industrialised nations.

I find it striking that, even without local pollution, eating the highest on the food chain has resulted in the worst build-up of toxins seen in human communities. And, obviously, if we don’t clean up our act, this is going to spread further down the food chain.

(The article has other good points I’m not focusing on here.)

(Via Die Puny Humans )