Posthuman Blues

Contaminated Arctic only looks pristine: From kelp to Inuit mothers' milk, all suffer from migration of industrial toxins

"'Silent Snow' is the culmination of five years' research and dozens of trips to various Arctic settlements to uproot the cause and effect of this vast Arctic paradox. Cone wanted to know why some Inuit mothers carry such extraordinary loads of PCBs and mercury that their breast milk could be classified as hazardous waste. She wanted to know how it is that the most harmful pollutants get stockpiled in Arctic ice and in the fat cells of Arctic mammals."

John Shirley comments:

"People in developing countries are exposed to a repellent cornucopia of toxins--many of them consciously introduced into their food by food processors for a variety of reasons. There's a strong likelihood that industrial and food processing toxins are implicated in this epidemic of dementia."