Imagine an enemy, bold and brazen, in front of your eyes, yet hidden. The enemy secretly poisons the sea that feeds you, hides the evidence and continues to flush the sea with its toxins for the next 10 years. The poison? — organic (methyl) mercury which erodes the part of the brain that controls the central nervous system. When it is absorbed through a mother’s placenta, the mother escapes the crippling horrors of mercury poisoning, but the unborn infant carries the brunt of this violence until the day they die.
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