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Thursday, January 22, 2004 at 10:00 AM EST
Atop the Contaminated Food Chain
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The Inuit people continue to live traditional lives above the Arctic Circle. They travel by kayak and hunt food from the sea. The surprise is that they host the highest human concentration of toxins on earth.

Guests:

Marla Cone, Environmental Reporter for “The Los Angeles Times”

Christopher Furgal, Researcher, Nasivvik Centre for Inuit Health and Changing Environments

Ken Cook, President, President, Environmental Working Group

Robert Wheelersburg, Chair of the Sociology-Anthropology
Program at Elizabethtown College

Eric Loring, Senior Environment Researcher for the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, a non-profit organization of Canada’s Inuit population.

 
 

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