From: Gary Wiltshire 

On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 11:48:25 -0800, Randall Parker
 wrote:

> Gary Wiltshire wrote:
>
>> That was a recurring fight at the dinner table.  Now my mother finally
>> acknowledges that I was right.  One is eating the accumulated toxins in
>> another creatures liver.
>
> I'd want to see some stats on this that show this is the case. Is there
> more Dioxin or PCB in liver tissue than in other organs or in muscle? I'd
> expect the biggest build-up in  fat tissue since most of the stuff you
> don't want is not polar or just has some polar piece at one spot.
>
> So I'd stay away from highly fatty variants of hamburger.
>
> Also, if liver toxin accumulation was a big problem I'd expect a higher
> rate of various liver diseases as compared to other organ diseases.
> Perhaps this is the case. Does liver cancer happen more often than other
> organ cancers? (leaving aside lung cancer from smoking)
>
>
>

IIRC, heavy metals accumulate in the liver.  Alan?

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Gary Wiltshire

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