Kerry wrote on Apr 10^th, 2012 at 7:27pm:

... might want to read Michael Pollen's "The Omnivore's Dilemna." ...

Pollan sometimes goes a bit overboard, but yeah, generally he is on the right track.

Even better than "Omnivore's Dilemma" (IMO) is the next book he wrote, "In Defense Of Food". Among other things, he takes aim at the the poor quality of almost all nutrition research - it's impossible to do good science in this field because it's impossible to control all the important variables. Quoting Gladys Block (Berkeley prof and guru in the field) "I don't believe anything I read in nutritional epidemiology anymore. I'm so skeptical at this point." So you shouldn't believe anything you read linking diet and health, much less things linking a meaningless "organic" label to long-term health effects.

I know the discussion has moved away from mercury, but David Lindley fans might enjoy this version of "Mercury Blues". The video is awful and the sound isn't very good, but it's the best I could find with the "extra" verse:
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