Forever Chemicals
Fish in the United States are having a bigger dose of these chemicals compare to other places. These chemicals are spreading all over the United States, and even to small bodies of water in rural environments. This is becoming detrimental to fish population health, as well as human health. So much so that according to healthline , “A study published today by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) reports that eating just a single serving of freshwater fish caught in the United States could be the equivalent of drinking water contaminated with PFOS for a month. ” PFOS is a potentially harmful chemical, known as perfluoro octane sulfonic. This is extremely alarming because fish is an important part in people’s diets. It is also very important for restaurants because many rural restaurants serve freshwater fish to their customers. These numbers are not going down either and there are no signs of it slowing down. A bad source of this is runoff pollution from sewage and on plants. He...