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MeatEater Conservation

Ep. 196: Paradise Island Lost, Legislation, and Bears

MeatEater Conservation

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness, Education

4.99.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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This week, Cal rounds up state and federal legislative action, the turducken of the weasel family, and bears.

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0:00.0

From mediators' world news headquarters in Boseman, Montana, this is Cal's We Can Review

0:08.1

presented by Steel.

0:10.3

Steel products are available only at Authorized Deals.

0:13.2

For more, go to StealDealers.com.

0:16.5

Now here's your host, Ryan Calcane.

0:22.3

A new study made headlines this week for its claim that eating a single freshwater fish

0:27.9

is on par with drinking a month's worth of contaminated water.

0:34.8

At least that's what you learned if you only read the headlines.

0:38.5

If you dig a little deeper, you find that the truth is a little more complicated, which

0:43.4

is exhausting, I know.

0:46.6

Thanks to everyone who sent this in, there's a lot of you.

0:50.4

This peer-reviewed study was published in the Environmental Research Journal.

0:54.5

The study looked at two sets of freshwater fish data.

0:58.0

One set of samples were collected from various water bodies in the United States between

1:02.4

2013 and 2015, and the other was collected from the Great Lakes in 2015.

1:09.6

The top line numbers are pretty darned concerning.

1:13.1

The study found that the concentrations of a common type of forever chemical known as

1:17.8

PFAS were higher in freshwater fish than in commercially-farmed fish or in seafood.

1:23.8

The concentrations were twice as high in the Great Lakes samples than in the samples from

1:29.5

across the country.

1:31.5

And of the 13 forever chemicals measured, all were detected in at least one fish sample.

1:37.7

To put these numbers in perspective, the authors compared the forever chemical levels in

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