More evidence that modern industrial society is bad for children, adults, and other living things.
This from a Santa Cruz Sentinel story on lead-contaminated candy imported from Mexico (although NOT by the original manufacturer) for the Latino community in Watsonville. The story finishes on this note: "This is not the first time that the county's health department has inspected candy in the dozens of candy stores located in Watsonville, where 75 percent of the population is Latino and where many products come directly from Mexico. Jerry LeMoine, program manager for the county's environmental health for nearly three decades, said the warnings of lead-contaminated candy began to peak a few years ago, and Hodges said candy isn't the only Mexican product that contains lead. "Pottery often has it and even grasshoppers that are commonly eaten by the Oaxacan people have a certain degree of lead," he said. The packets of grasshoppers, however, cannot be bought here. Generally, they are brought into the country by the Oaxacans, who believe the insects contain high degrees of protein. "And they do," said Hodges. "It's just that they also feed on ground that used to be mined and where there are all sorts of tailings"' In Full: http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2007/May/11/local/stories/04local.htm
