I avoid anything that comes out of our waterways. I won't even take fish oil anymore. I know that's unfortunate, but I don't want to be worrying about whether not there was some toxin in it.

This area is highly polluted even though the steel mills left Pittsburgh MANY years. Now they let whoever is left here (I guess mostly coal-fired power plants) pollute as much as they want and the public gets to suffer. You can only eat 1 fish a MONTH from most creeks and rivers here. There are a few select areas where the fishing commission states it's never safe to eat the fish.

Reading an article like this scares the living....crap out of me
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/cityregion/s_535467.html

Pittsburgh was rated the most polluted in short term particle pollution and 2nd in long term particle polution this past year.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Weather/Story?id=4758772&page=1
We beat Los Angeles in short term particle pollution! Now the scariest part about the pollution here is that you can't see it. I know some cities have a smog, but that doesn't really happen here. There may be some haze, but most of that is from the humidity. The pollution here is invisible, so I think that makes it worse. People don't see it so it becomes a case of "out of sight, out of mind". The ONLY thing people care about here is the Steelers. I wish the Steelers had been sold, so that all the dumb morons would have moved away with them. This city would have been cleared of idiots overnight!