{"id":387,"date":"2009-01-29T15:28:34","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T15:28:34","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2021-01-29T20:11:47","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T01:11:47","slug":"did-the-fda-know-about-the-mercury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centernet.pcusa.org\/food-faith\/2009\/01\/29\/did-the-fda-know-about-the-mercury\/","title":{"rendered":"did the FDA know about the mercury?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"text_expose_id_4981c323478734370535334\">\n<p>If you are following this sad story about the poison within the poison&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Anitra Kitts wrote <span class=\"story_time\">at 8:26pm on Tuesday &#8211; <\/span><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/leslie-hatfield\/our-melamine-theres-mercu_b_161334.html\">here<br \/>\nis some more info on the mercury stuff<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Like apparently the FDA has<br \/>\nknown about this for four years &amp; done squat&#8230;.?&#8230;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Leslie Hatfield, in the Huffington Post begins her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/leslie-hatfield\/our-melamine-theres-mercu_b_161334.html\">article<\/a>,<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 40px\">&#8220;Maybe Jeremy Piven didn&#8217;t get <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2008\/12\/18\/jeremy-piven-quits-broadw_n_151987.html\">mercury poisoning<\/a> from fish at all &#8212; according to the results of a new study released by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iatp.org\/\">Institute for Agriculture and Trace Policy<\/a><br \/>\n(IATP), the actor may well have been sickened by soda or candy or<br \/>\nanything that contains high fructose corn syrup, which, if you eat<br \/>\nprocessed food in this country means, well, just about anything.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p>All this makes one believe John Calvin may have been right about human depravity. Speaking of which &#8211; If you didn&#8217;t realize, this year is his 500th birthday. Yes, he is very old. And you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcusa.org\/theologyandworship\/calvin.htm\">learn about the celebrations here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/leslie-hatfield\/our-melamine-theres-mercu_b_161334.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leslie Hatfield, in the Huffington Post begins her article, &#8220;Maybe Jeremy Piven didn&#8217;t get mercury poisoning from fish at all &#8212; according to the results of a new study released by the Institute for Agriculture and Trace Policy (IATP), the actor may well have been sickened by soda or candy or anything that contains high fructose corn syrup, which, if you eat processed food in this country means, well, just about anything.&#8221;\r\n\r\nAll this makes one believe John Calvin may have been right about human depravity. Speaking of which &#8211; If you didn&#8217;t realize, this year is his 500th birthday. Yes, he is very old. And you can learn about the celebrations here.\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3631],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earth-care"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.5 (Yoast SEO v23.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>did the FDA know about the mercury? - Food and Faith<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/centernet.pcusa.org\/food-faith\/2009\/01\/29\/did-the-fda-know-about-the-mercury\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"did the FDA know about the mercury?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Leslie Hatfield, in the Huffington Post begins her article, &quot;Maybe Jeremy Piven didn&#039;t get mercury poisoning from fish at all -- according to the results of a new study released by the Institute for Agriculture and Trace Policy (IATP), the actor may well have been sickened by soda or candy or anything that contains high fructose corn syrup, which, if you eat processed food in this country means, well, just about anything.&quot;  All this makes one believe John Calvin may have been right about human depravity. 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