[HN Gopher] Wild Boar Has Five Times More PFAS Than Humans Allow...
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Wild Boar Has Five Times More PFAS Than Humans Allowed to Eat
Author : Jimmc414
Score : 18 points
Date : 2024-06-26 22:03 UTC (57 minutes ago)
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| ggm wrote:
| Would be interesting to compare with e.g. Feral Pig meat in
| Australia
| 0x1ch wrote:
| I believe wild pig and feral boar are used interchangeably, so
| that would probably indicate more of an environmental problem
| localized to Australia.
| ggm wrote:
| Australia is massive. If we have high levels of PFOA in feral
| pig meat in the N.T. and northern queensland thats a very
| interesting problem. The feral pig problem at large is of
| course an ecological disaster but since it extends into
| productive lands close to habitation on the coastal edge and
| south-east, it will include areas we know are massively
| contaminated. The north tip and the northern coast are much
| less subject to this, tick-bath and drenching tank waste
| aside (and that is some heinously bad stuff, but I don't
| think its PFOA)
| dpc_01234 wrote:
| Afaik, wild boars are full of parasites so I would not recommend
| eating them anyway. They also eat about anything, so probably
| that's why they're a good indicator of background pollution
| levels.
| netsharc wrote:
| Still they're a popular game meat in Germany. The German
| Wikipedia page says the meat need to be inspected, also for
| radiation because of Chernobyl.
|
| I remember having a wild boar burger which a friend of a friend
| hunted, as well as steak from the supermarket... both were
| tasty.
| Jimmc414 wrote:
| The story seems to be more about the ubiquity of PFAS than of
| the edibility of wild boar.
| RoyalHenOil wrote:
| Indeed, from the article:
|
| >Wild boar were selected for these PFAS studies because they
| -- and their livers in particular -- are good "bio-
| indicators" of "background" levels of PFAS in the
| environment.
| autokad wrote:
| similar issue with radiation near Chernobyl. They dig deep into
| the ground and get into things that are normally burred.
| novia wrote:
| Every day we get a little closer to an Oryx and Crake reality.
| sharadov wrote:
| I had roasted and spiced wild boar meat once, I expected it to be
| gamey but it was quite tender. It probably was more to do with
| how they had cooked it.
| grumpitron wrote:
| I always considered "gamey" to be a flavor instead of a
| texture, but as I think about it I appreciate expecting wild
| animal meat to be tougher than farmed meat. Thanks for
| broadening my mind!
| hprotagonist wrote:
| ils sont fous, ces czechs.
| w45h6 wrote:
| "Did you know the average fish today contains more mercury than a
| rectal thermometer?"
|
| "Would you eat a rectal thermometer!?"
| batch12 wrote:
| Not on purpose
| ars wrote:
| This seems like it's using fluorine as a proxy for PFAS?
|
| They seem like they also directly attempted to measure actual
| PFAS, but then mixed the results with fluorine, I could not quite
| understand what they did. Maybe someone can interpert?
|
| I don't like using organic fluorine as a proxy for PFAS, because
| fluorine also exists naturally in the environment - we mine it
| from the environment after all.
| 29athrowaway wrote:
| Also found in: Floss, contact lenses, food containers (especially
| cupcake paper and microwave popcorn) and tampons
| soperj wrote:
| Guitar strings.
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