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  • After Chernobyl, radioactive iodine in contaminated milk was a problem, said Murray McBride, a professor and soil chemist at Cornell University who studies food-chain contamination.

    Radiation Spurs Fears Around Japanese Food Shirley S. Wang 2011

  • Junior Alvarez is a sociopathic low-life who uses his unalloyed brutality to clamber up the gangster food-chain; he is "a person of great will but no spirituality and even less remorse."

    A Tale of Two Joes, One of Them Conrad Sam Sacks 2011

  • According to a Scripps study, 9% of "garbage patch" fish showed evidence of plastic ingestion -- the fish that serve as food-chain fish for the ones we eat are eating little toxic plastic bombs.

    Stiv J. Wilson: In Defense of Plastic Bag Bans Stiv J. Wilson 2011

  • I expect to see many more examples of those at the top of the restaurant food-chain strip mining the street food zeitgeist while doing exactly zero of the hard work the real vendors do, and giving back exactly zero to the street vendors themselves, the people whose hard work has made this kind of thing possible.

    At Lunch Now: Boulud Says “Shake Shack Has Nothing On My Burger!” | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan 2010

  • According to a Scripps study, 9% of "garbage patch" fish showed evidence of plastic ingestion -- the fish that serve as food-chain fish for the ones we eat are eating little toxic plastic bombs.

    Stiv J. Wilson: In Defense of Plastic Bag Bans Stiv J. Wilson 2011

  • According to a Scripps study, 9% of "garbage patch" fish showed evidence of plastic ingestion -- the fish that serve as food-chain fish for the ones we eat are eating little toxic plastic bombs.

    Stiv J. Wilson: In Defense of Plastic Bag Bans Stiv J. Wilson 2011

  • Tensions arose with creative executives who sought to keep their top-of-the food-chain status within agencies, ad executives say.

    Time Inc. Finds Its Future in Digital Ad Executive Russell Adams 2011

  • In fact, as far as I'm concerned, we should take those envoro-nut-jobs and send them out to live in their precious nature with nothing but a spear, a knife and a ligter (effectively as cavemen, as they wish humanity had remained and could now regress to), and see how long they last as third-rate hunter-gatherers in the food-chain.

    Grizzly Plan Could Deny Hunter Access 2009

  • Cows are efficient at picking up the iodine from eating contaminated feed, and it appears to pass easily into their milk, said Murray McBride , a professor and soil chemist at Cornell University who studies food-chain contamination.

    Radiation in Food Rises Juro Osawa 2011

  • Junior Alvarez is a sociopathic low-life who uses his unalloyed brutality to clamber up the gangster food-chain; he is "a person of great will but no spirituality and even less remorse."

    A Tale of Two Joes, One of Them Conrad Sam Sacks 2011

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