more than 1,000 power plants in the u.s. use water from our lakes & rivers for steam to power their turbines. a single power plant uses millions of gallons of water a minute. with all that water comes fish & fish eggs. so how many die a year as a result?according to the epa (which only counts fish that have commercial value), somewhere above 1.5 billion a year. let that number sink in for a minute. 1.5 billion. and have you noticed that almost all of the salmon that you see in the market these days is 'atlantic' salmon (ie, farmed, because native salmon actually come from the pacific and from rivers that feed into it - or at least they did).
many parents of autistic children blame innoculations that contain mercury for their childdren's condition, despite federal studies that apparently disprove any link. but coal-fired power plants also produce a large amount of mercury in atmospheric form, and there just happens to be a new study that links autism with rainfall, which captures atmospheric mercury and pushes it into the water supply. combating either issue costs money, which power companies - almost all of them legal monopolies - grease senators to avoid.
fine - that being the case, we think it's only fair that they and all of their employees and stockholders be prevented from ever eating freshwater fish of any kind ever again. and that the only liquid that they be permitted to imbibe be rainwater from the retaining ponds next to their plants.
if it was good enough for solomon, it's good enough for us.