Caroline Fraser
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We've known that arsenic is a poison since forever.
And yet, you know, comes along the 20th century and somehow these corporations are telling communities, including the community on Vashon Island, you know, oh, arsenic is really not a problem.
You know, the human body just excretes it naturally.
You know, all kinds of just –
Crazy arguments were being put forward to justify what they were doing.
I mean, there actually are two kinds of arsenic.
There's organic arsenic, which you can get from seafood.
And if you're eating a lot of.
You know, shrimp or sardines or whatever, it can build up.
And I think that that form of arsenic is less toxic and less of a problem.
You definitely don't want it.
I mean, as your doctor said, don't do that.
Yeah, but the stuff that they were producing at the smelter in Tacoma was what's called inorganic arsenic.
And that's the stuff they used to poison rats.
And they used it for insecticides and things.