When is someone going to sue over mercury levels in fish?

[devilgrrl]

Isn't that as important as second hand cigarette smoke?

[hiaasenrocks]

1. Already being done.

Just go to Google and try a search for mercury fish lawsuit and you'll see all kinds of stuff...

[devilgrrl]

2. Cool. Thanks.

I hope something comes of it because it scares the crap out of me.

[beam me up scottie]

3. I don't eat fish.

But I am forced to inhale the secondhand smoke from up to 100 cigarettes in a 9 hour day.

[hiaasenrocks]

4. Forced?

Why do you let that happen?

[beam me up scottie]

5. I have to work.

Jobs are scarce here.
I was unemployed for six months before I found this one.

[hiaasenrocks]

6. What kind of job is this

where people are smoking inside all day long? Just curious.

[beam me up scottie]

7. Inside sales.

Everybody smokes except for me and one other person.
I feel like I chain smoked three packs by the time I get out of here.
I swear I have nicotine fits on the weekend.
My clothes stink, my hair stinks, even my skin stinks.

[devilgrrl]

9. Where do you work? A casino?

BTW, sorry that you have to put up with that. :-(

[MountainLaurel]

8. A great talking point against pro-lifers

Abortion is bad, but dumping toxic chemicals into the water systems that cause developing fetuses to not develop properly and leave lifelong brain damage is A-OK.

[mondo joe]

10. And why try to limit mercury levels? If you don't like mercury

don't eat fish.

[devilgrrl]

12. Is it me, or are you dumb as a post?

What stupid comment that was. So you like mercury in the oceans?

What an ass!

[mondo joe]

13. Are we permitted to tell others what to do when it comes to mercury

in the oceans?

Based on the smoking threads I wasn't so sure any more.

[devilgrrl]

14. I started the thread in reaction to the smoking threads...

because I think mercury in the ocean is a lot more important that cigarette smoke. Jesus, less than 30% of the population (less than that probably) smokes regularly. Yes, smoking is gross and bad for people, blaa blaa blaa... but I'd like to have a tuna sandwich once in while without the worry of being poisoned by it.

[mondo joe]

15. I'd like to have a tuna sammich without being poisoned by the fish OR by

the person at the next table in the restaurant.

And that's my only objection to smoking - what it does to others nearby.

I can object to both poisons.

[devilgrrl]

16. you feel the same way about vehicle emissions?

I hope so, because that does to others as well.

[mondo joe]

17. Yes - so I strongly support controls on emissions. This isn't exactly

an unusual dem position.

[applegrove]

11. Think of the poor women in the "north" who rely on fish more than three

times a week in their diet. And have mercurty in their breast milk.