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N.J. warns: Don't eat squirrel near dump
AP/Yahoo ^ | Thu Jan 25, 5:36 PM ET

Posted on 01/25/2007 7:24:08 PM PST by martin_fierro

N.J. warns: Don't eat squirrel near dump

Thu Jan 25, 5:36 PM ET

TRENTON, N.J. - New Jersey has warned squirrel hunters near a toxic waste dump about consuming the critters because they could be contaminated with lead.

It is the first time the state has cautioned Ringwood residents _ many who are members of the Ramapough Mountain Indian tribe who hunt and fish in the area _ about their squirrel intake, said Tom Slater, a spokesman for the Department of Health and Senior Services.

A lead-contaminated squirrel was found in the area two months ago, prompting the agency, along with the state Department of Environmental Protection, to send out letters advising that adults eat squirrel no more than twice a week and even less for children and pregnant women.

Lead, which is harmful in small amounts, can damage the nervous system, red blood cell production and the kidneys.

"We've known for a long time something was wrong here, we just didn't know what it was," resident Myrtle Van Dunk said.

Residents and many environmental activists believe the lead comes from toxic waste, including paint sludge, dumped in the area by the Ford Motor Co. during the 1960s and early 1970s, from its now-closed car manufacturing plant in Mahwah.

Ford is removing thousands of tons of waste from a 500-acre former mining property in the Ringwood area. The site was recently relisted on the federal Superfund list, a ranking of the country's worst environmental dump sites, after multiple cleanups failed to remove all the sludge


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Outdoors; Pets/Animals; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: jacksonwhites; joisey; leadsquirrels; nj; notagoodbreakfast
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To: martin_fierro; Slings and Arrows

Trans fats, lead paint chips, and now this. I am sick and freaking tired of these damn scientologists laying down the law on what I can and can not eat!


21 posted on 01/26/2007 7:19:11 AM PST by presidio9 (There is something wonderful about a country that produces a brave and humble man like Wesley Autrey)
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To: martin_fierro
N.J. warns: Don't eat squirrel near dump

Is it okay if I kill a dump squirrel, and then go home and eat it? What about muskrat, mole, and cockroach?

22 posted on 01/26/2007 7:50:20 AM PST by highimpact
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To: Slings and Arrows
South-baiters, note that this story is from NEW JERSEY.

New Jersey is further south than Ireland....

23 posted on 01/26/2007 11:41:16 AM PST by Irish_Thatcherite (A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!|What if I lecture Americans about America?)
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To: Irish_Thatcherite

Damn Yankee.


24 posted on 01/26/2007 12:18:14 PM PST by Slings and Arrows ("Facts are a Zionist plot!" --MarkL)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Cork people are Dixies....


25 posted on 01/26/2007 12:30:21 PM PST by Irish_Thatcherite (A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!|What if I lecture Americans about America?)
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To: Irish_Thatcherite


YEEEEEEE-HAW!!!

26 posted on 01/26/2007 12:42:56 PM PST by Slings and Arrows ("Facts are a Zionist plot!" --MarkL)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Cork people are crazy!


27 posted on 01/26/2007 1:25:40 PM PST by Irish_Thatcherite (A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!|What if I lecture Americans about America?)
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To: Pharmboy; Coleus
Kinda weird how I have had to swerve to avoid more fauna in New Jersey than when I lived in Washington. Driving the roads around here, I have had to avoid deer, wild turkey, muskrat, and opposum.

Of course, squirrels, like pigeons, are about as common to roadkill as kudzu on an old Lousiana barn.

28 posted on 01/27/2007 12:21:41 AM PST by Clemenza
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To: martin_fierro
Kinda makes you wonder what all the two-legged squirrels have been into...

Do they still have lead plumbing in D.C.?

29 posted on 01/27/2007 12:25:17 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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