Posthuman Blues

European parliamentarians contaminated by 76 chemicals

"Results from the widest ranging European survey of human toxic contamination show that 76 persistent, bio-accumulative, and toxic industrial chemicals were present in the blood of those tested."

Viridian pope-emperor Bruce Sterling says it best:

"It's not about 'blood for oil' -- because the blood *is* the oil. We inhale that stuff, we grow food with it, we metabolize it -- there's no distinction to be made."