Mmm... toxins

Do you share Homer's love of pork? Take a gander at the Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA)'s list of chemicals commonly found in Canadian pork: arsenic, lead, PCBs, dioxins and furans (by-products of incinerator combustion), pentachlorophenol (a wood preservative) and di-2-ethylhexyl phthalate (an industrial process chemical).

According to Paul Muldoon of the CELA, the chemicals circulate in the environment from normal use and find their way into the foods we eat.

The CELA is bringing these facts to light to protest the stalling of Bill C-74 in the House of Commons, which strengthens regulations on the more dangerous and persistent toxins found in foods. "The Bill is being stalled by industry lobbying and bureaucratic bungling," Muldoon says. The bill was one of the promises in the Liberal Red Book.