by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D.
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| These chemical contaminants persist for long periods in sediments, where bottom-dwelling animals accumulate them and pass them up the food chain to fish. Levels of these contaminants may increase as they move up the food chain, so top predators in a food chain, such as largemouth bass or pike, may have levels a million times as high as that in the water.
Mercury, PCBs, chlordane, dioxins, and DDT were at least partly responsible for 96 percent of all fish consumption advisories in effect in 2002. |
Committee on Comparative Toxicity of Naturally Occurring Carcinogens
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 N: Derived (cooking) N: Derived (cooking) N: Derived
S: pesticidal contaminant, in food chain S: pesticidal contaminant, in food chain S: pesticidal contaminant, in food chain S: pesticidal contaminant, in food chain S: pesticidal contaminant, in food chain
3.23E-02 2.22E-01
Carcinogenicity by oral route uncertain
2.08E-03 7.14E-03
2.22E-03 5.56E-03
3.70E-03 6. |
Andreas Moritz
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 The lowest level of the food chain, where foods are manufactured directly by sunlight, makes available the most sun energy. In contrast, products that are high on the food chain contain little or no sun energy and are practically useless, if not harmful, for the body. These include products made from dead animals, fish, junk foods, microwaved foods, frozen, irradiated, genetically engineered21, and other highly processed foods.
Wood, fuel, and minerals, too, are merely various forms of locked-up sun energy. In fact, all matter is "frozen" light. Our body cells are bundles of sun energy. |
Committee on Comparative Toxicity of Naturally Occurring Carcinogens
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| N: Derived (cooking) N: Derived (cooking) N: Derived
S: pesticidal contaminant, in food chain S: pesticidal contaminant, in food chain S: pesticidal contaminant, in food chain S: pesticidal contaminant, in food chain S: pesticidal contaminant, in food chain
3.23E-02 2.22E-01
Carcinogenicity by oral route uncertain
2.08E-03 7.14E-03
2.22E-03 5.56E-03
3.70E-03 6. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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 Eat Lower on the Food Chain
Because toxins become more concentrated higher up in the food chain (a concept known as bioaccumulation), animal products generally are more burdened with toxins. If you choose to eat meat, poultry, eggs, and dairy products, protect your health—and your sleep—by eating organic products. In addition, the hormones—both supplemental and natural—in animal products can disrupt hormonal balance, which can have negative impact on sleep (more on that topic in chapter 8, Balance Your Hormones). Cold-water fish, such as salmon, cod, and mackerel, can be especially beneficial. |
Ann N. Martin
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 Cunningham, DVM, SM, a Colorado State Veterinarian, replied, "Any animal euthanized with pentobarbital is not allowed into human or the pet food chain."17 Leroy Coffman, the state veterinarian for Florida was in agreement with Dr. Cunningham: "FDA regulation prohibits the use of any animal euthanized with sodium pentobarbital from being used in the human or animal food chain. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 Theo Colburn's groundbreaking study of the links between pesticides, PCBs, and other organochlorides in the food chain and hormonal disruption and birth defects makes clear that whatever an individual woman can do to avoid these compounds in her food and water is well worth doing.130 Because humans are high on the food chain, the effects of these compounds on human reproduction are potentially exponential and devastating.
Hazardous substances such as pesticides, lead, and other chemicals brought home from the work environment on a parent's clothing can harm an unborn child. |
Ron Garner
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 Once in the air, it is inhaled, and starts accumulating in the food chain. A World Health Organization report from 1997 stated that mercury accumulates at the top of the aquatic and marine food chains, and that fish are the major source of dietary exposure. Many species of fish, especially tuna, swordfish, shark, and bottom-feeders, as well as shellfish, are now considered unsafe to eat. Even in the supposedly clean environment of Greenland, one in six Greenlanders now have potentially harmful blood levels of mercury from eating contaminated fish and whales. |
Committee on Comparative Toxicity of Naturally Occurring Carcinogens
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| N: Derived (cooking) N: Derived (cooking) N: Derived
S: pesticidal contaminant, in food chain S: pesticidal contaminant, in food chain S: pesticidal contaminant, in food chain S: pesticidal contaminant, in food chain S: pesticidal contaminant, in food chain
3.23E-02 2.22E-01
Carcinogenicity by oral route uncertain
2.08E-03 7.14E-03
2.22E-03 5.56E-03
3.70E-03 6. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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 Section 6: GM crops may increase environmental toxins and bioaccumulate toxins in the food chain............143
6.1 Glufosinate-tolerant crops may produce herbicide "inside"our intestines............................................144
6.2 Herbicide-tolerant crops increase herbicide use and residues in food..................................................146
6.3 Tiny amounts of herbicide may act as endocrine disruptors.................................................................148
6.4 GM crops may accumulate environmental toxins or concentrate toxins in milk and meat of GM-fed animals. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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 This strategy is not about the ethics of eating animals, being the highest carnivore on the food chain, or deforestation of the Amazon to raise cattle. Rather, it is about finding the balance of animal protein to green plants in your diet that is right for you. You may transition to a near total vegephile existence in your Diet Evolution, or you may decide that all you are comfortable with is one meatless day a week. The choice is yours. |
| Further up the food chain, when larger predators like tuna or swordfish gobble up smaller fish that are now loaded with omega-3 oils, they, too, stock up. As the ultimate predator, we eventually eat these large fish and with them the omega-3s.
When you eat fish or take fish or cod liver oil, you're consuming "long-chain" omega-3S. I call all these oils "green" oil. Just as these fish incorporate the green fats they consume into their systems, all animals-and that includes you, my friend-incorporate fats from the things they eat into their own cells and fat stores. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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| He says "it is virtually impossible to even conceive of a testing procedure to assess the health effects of genetically engineered foods when introduced into the food chain, nor is there any valid nutritional or public interest reason for their introduction."6
Scientists worldwide acknowledge that GM crops were introduced long before the science was ready. Many call for a prolonged moratorium. They tell the industry to come back with their products in 50-100 years, after they have done their homework.
Biotech companies insist that the benefits of the technology justify the risk. |
| Washington Post Regarding StarLink corn contamination in the food chain: "There is no surefire way of testing a new protein like Cry9C for its potential to cause allergies in people____'We all wish there was a test where you plug in a protein and out pops a "yes" or "no" answer,' said Sue Macintosh, a protein chemist with AgrEvo. But there is no such test, short of giving it to a lot of people and seeing what happens.' |
| For crops such as canola and cotton, extraction of the oil for human consumption leaves a protein-rich byproduct, which is commonly fed to livestock, which then feed into the human food chain. ... However, with two exceptions, no actual lab or feeding trial assessment of toxicity (or allergenicity) to livestock is referenced... .The logic is internally inconsistent for assessment of the potential toxicity (and allergenicity) of canola and cotton. |
| This stance is taken despite good reasons to believe that specific risks may exist____Governments should never have allowed these products into the food chain without insisting on rigorous testing for effects on health."24
"Even though it is well-known that the process of genetic engineering causes numerous, unpredictable changes in plant composition due to its haphazard nature, neither industry nor government conducts the sort of testing needed to detect them and determine whether they have human health or environmental impacts. ... |
| Toxicologist Gilles-Eric Seralini called for labeling of animal products from GMO-fed animals "because pesticide residues associated [with] GMOs may bioaccumulate in the food chain, especially Roundup residues and adjuvants, and because animals may have metabolic disorders when they eat GMOs."67
The European Commission acknowledges that, "indirect environmental or human health effects that may arise from direct impacts on animal health or GM plant-induced imbalance in the animal interactions with the ecosystem is still largely an unexplored area. |
Michael Pollan
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 By breaking the links among local soils, local foods, and local peoples, the industrial food system disrupted the circular flow of nutrients through the food chain. Whatever the advantages of the new industrial system, it could no longer meet the biochemical requirements of the human body, which, not having had time to adapt, was failing in new ways.
Whether or not you're willing to travel quite that far with Dr. |
| In making such connections between the quality of soil and grass and the health of the human eaters at the top of the food chain, Price was advancing a critique of the industrialized agriculture just getting established in the thirties. In this he was not alone: Around the same time, the English agronomist Sir Albert Howard, the philosophical father of the organic farming movement, was also arguing that the industrialization of agriculture—in particular the introduction of synthetic nitrogen fertilizer, which simplified the chemistry of the soil—would eventually take its toll on our health. |
Ron Garner
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| Marine Phytoplankton
Phytoplankton are microscopic single-celled plant organisms that are the foundational basis of the food chain for all animals living in the ocean. Many species of whales eat them, develop great strength and endurance, and live to between 80 and 150 years. The largest is the whale shark, which lives to more than 150 years and is sexually active until it dies.4
Phytoplankton are responsible for the production of a major portion of the earth's oxygen as well as the regulation of our atmosphere. |
Andreas Moritz
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| In turn, small fish eat the zooplankton, and from there the mercury moves up through the aquatic food chain, with the large, deep-ocean fish at the top of the chain carrying the highest mercury concentration. Even waterways that are far away from any ocean, such as the Elkhorn River in Nebraska or the Colorado River in the Western part of the United States, are known to have mercury-contaminated fish. The Environmental Working Group (EWG) issued the following list of high-mercury fish:
1. Swordfish
2. Tuna
3. King mackerel
4. Halibut
5. Sea bass
6. Tilefish
7. Pike
8. Walleye
9. |
David R. Montgomery
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 Acting like a catalyst, good dirt allows plants to capture sunlight and convert solar energy and carbon dioxide into the carbohydrates that power terrestrial life right on up the food chain.
Plants need nitrogen, potassium, phosphorus, and a host of other elements. Some, like calcium or sodium, are common enough that their scarcity does not limit plant growth. Others, like cobalt, are quite rare and yet essential. The processes that create soil also cycle nutrients through ecosystems, and thereby indirectly make the land hospitable to animals as well as plants. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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| When you consume many foods—especially seafood, meat, poultry, and dairy products—you're ingesting all the chemicals and pesticides that have accumulated as contaminants in the food chain.
Some of these pollutants are stored in the body, loading it up with poisons, and this can manifest in a variety of symptoms, including decreased immune function, damage to nerve cells, hormonal dysfunction, psychological disturbances, and sleep disorders. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 They are low on the food chain, so they are not full of heavy metals and toxins. They have all these factors, the vitamin D, the vitamin A, the fish oil, and the RNA. It is a supercharged food for humans and animals.
Mike: Do you buy canned sardines?
Dr. Liers: Yes. Canned sardines will cost you around a dollar for 15 ounces. You can get them at your Asian or ethnic food market, or even Safeway has them for about $1.50. We regularly serve our dogs sardines. We developed a recipe called Dog Heaven. We mix a little bit of Innova EVO dog food with the sardines. Then we add Rejuvenate! |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Unless something is done to protect the honeybee population soon, many fruits and vegetables may disappear from the food chain.
The results of a limited study at Landau University have been reported in newspapers around the world, stating that radiation coming from cell phones may be directly responsible for the disappearance of bee populations around the globe.
However, according to the researchers of the German study its results were based on cordless phones, which work on a different type of radiation than cell phones. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Lawmakers are on the food chain too, addicted to health care industry money for their reelection campaigns. The corporations in power today are allied against any switch to universal health care because it would take the profit out of the system and deliver quality health care services on the cheap.
Think about it: Americans pay the most, by far, for health care. We pay monopoly prices for pharmaceuticals. It's a great scam if you're cashing in as a drug company or corrupt FDA official. But the People just get the shaft. |
Michael Pollan
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| In lengthening the food chain so that we could feed great cities from distant soils, we were breaking the "rules of nature" at least twice: by robbing nutrients from the soils the foods had been grown in and then squandering those nutrients by processing the foods. Compared to the native peoples Price studied, many of whom took pains to return nutrients to the local soil on which they absolutely depended, "our modern civilization returns exceedingly little of what it borrows. Vast fleets are busy carrying the limited minerals of far-flung districts to distant markets. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 Nonorganic poultry and meats are packed with hormones and antibiotics, not to mention often full of PCBs, mercury, and other chemicals that accumulate up the food chain in the cows, pigs, lambs, and chickens we consume. Processed meats are preserved with nitrates. Patient studies show that higher intake of nitrates and nitrites is associated with a higher risk of developing type 1 diabetes. Grocery-store chicken comes to us having been raised on feed laced not only with hormones and antibiotics but chemical dyes to give the meat a more attractive hue. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 And because sardines are real low on the marine food chain, toxins like mercury don't accumulate in them.
Get sardines packed in their own oil. They're harder to find, but worth it. Do nor be afraid of the fat—it's good stuff! If you can't find them in sardine oil, olive oil is a perfectly fine substitute. Do not —repeat, do nor—buy the kind that's packed in vegetable oil, which simply loads them up with highly inflammatory omega-6 fats from a heavily processed oil that does nothing good for you. |
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