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About 7 million Americans are allergic to one type of food or another--from nuts to milk to wheat to shellfish. This year, some 30,000 will develop reactions severe enough to send them to the emergency ward, and about 200 will die--often after their throats close up and their blood pressure plummets...
Another school of thought, popular among clinical ecologists, is that we crave foods we are allergic to. I don't buy it. True food allergies--like anaphylactic reactions to peanuts or shellfish--are rare. Many more people may be intolerant of certain foods, but the reactions they have are idiosyncratic and not caused by the immune system...
...shipping lanes: the Mississippi River. The port of South Louisiana moves more tonnage each year than any other in the nation. Add to that the commodities the Gulf produces, including nearly 30% of the nation's oil, 20% of its natural gas and a third of its fish and shellfish, and it is clear--as many have pointed out since last week--that even if New Orleans were completely leveled, we would have to build something in its place...
...would-be-meal’s danger of extinction. As to the former, it is true that animals higher up the food chain are more hazardous to eat—since they tend to ingest and accumulate more chemicals—but dog meat is no more dangerous than shellfish and hardly merits its own special ban. And as for the latter, as any Parisian will tell you, the world’s dog population is hardly in danger...
Proterozoic ? First shellfish and corals Cambrian Ordovician ? First fsh Silurian ? First land plants Devonian ? Tiktaalik ? First tetrapods Carboniferous ? First reptiles ? First mammal-like reptiles Permian Triassic ? First dinosaurs ? First mammals Jurassic ? First birds Cretaceous ? First flowering plants Cenozoic ? First horses...