Why are people who eat meat and fish more likely to ingest heavy metals than are strict vegetarians?

Answer 1

Meat is the flesh of any member of the animal kingdom. Because fish and seafood are living creatures they are classified rightly as meat.

Once Mercury, lead, and some heavy metals go into the body, they never come out. They are toxic to living organisms and continue to build up over a lifetime.

When a larger animals eats a smaller predator, it consumes all the metals that the smaller animal has stored in its body. Those metals are added to the metals in the larger animal's body. This means that the bigger animal has a higher percentage of deadly metals in its body. That percentage grows with every "meal".

As a successively larger predator eats a smaller one, metals build up very fast. So, when man, who is at the top of the food chain, eats fish and other types of meat, he eats all the metals from every other creature eaten by that animal all the way down to the very smallest living organism where it all began. As a result, people who eat meat get much, much higher doses of dangerous metals and compounds in their diets.

Since vegetarians don't eat meat or flesh foods, they aren't exposed to such high levels of toxic chemicals and metals.