Great. Now even our rice is lethal.
"When we're all paranoid about what's in our food, the question to ask is, 'Would you like your rice to be grown on arsenic contaminated soil?'," he says.Low doses of arsenic such as these do not cause acute illness. "It's more about long term intake that can elevate levels of cancer,"
Meanwhile, NY state songbirds are showing high mercury levels. If results come back as bad as researchers fear, it could spell disaster for the watershed that supplies the 9 million people in the New York metro area.