Ethics

Let Them Eat Fish

By Ed Brayton

This Eartha Melzer story we have up at the Michigan Messenger this morning is absolutely unbelievable. Dow Chemical is located in the Saginaw/Midland area in Michigan and they have polluted the place like you wouldn't believe, especially with dioxin and PCBs. The state has warned people for years not to eat any fish caught in the rivers in the area because of the high dioxin levels, especially children and pre-menopausal women. They just shut down a major park near one of the rivers because even the dirt was so contaminated that it wasn't safe for people to be there. So guess what they've decided to do there? Answer below the fold.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on April 22, 2009 (boomark / email).