permaculture

["John Schinnerer" <john@eco-living.net>]

Aloha,

> I read somewhere (which puts this information in the class of hearsay
> about a hypothesis--yikes) that because leaded gasoline was used for so
> many years, significant quantities of lead were put into the air and
> soil. Long-lived plants and animals have picked up this lead and now
> hold it in their tissues...

A brief history of tetraethyl lead through the lens of dysfunctional USA
public health policy:

http://www.monitor.net/rachel/r539.html

Read through the first bit to get down to the case study, which is
tetraethyl lead - states how easily it is absorbed in this form by living
organisms.


John Schinnerer, MA
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