Monday, September 26, 2011

Marine Poison

No, this isn't about some jarhead.  It's about fatuous legislation.

Someone I know recently bought some Solaray Kidney tabs.  For the first time ever, the container had a huge tag hanging around its neck shouting "California Proposition 65."  A lot of head scratching as to how a bunch of harmless herbs suddenly have become "toxic."  Turns out, kelp is the culprit:  it contains natural arsenic...in sub-microscopic amounts.

Just imagine:  for millennia, the various fauna that nibble on kelp have been exposed to ARRRRGHsenic!!!
Water they going to do to survive...now that they KNOW about the unmentionable?  Will our dear Barry have to start a whole new agency, "Kelp-Eaters Ministry of Defence"?