{"id":5713,"date":"2008-04-18T17:40:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-18T17:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/pets_carry_wide_range_of_chemical_pollutants\/"},"modified":"2008-04-18T17:40:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-18T17:40:00","slug":"pets_carry_wide_range_of_chemical_pollutants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=5713","title":{"rendered":"Pets Carry Wide Range of Chemical Pollutants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your cat probably has more mercury in its system than you do, and your dog has twice as much of the chemicals found in stain-resistant carpets and couches. That&#8217;s the conclusion of an environmental group that tested pets for a wide range of industrial chemicals.<\/p>\n<p>If you walk on a stain-resistant carpet, you may kick up and inhale a tiny dose of perfluorochemicals, or PFCs. But what if you stretched out on it for a while and then licked your fur? That&#8217;s what Richard Wiles and his colleagues at the Environmental Working Group wanted to know.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It occurred to us that no one had actually tested pets, [which] live in the same environment as we do, for the toxic contaminants that we know are in people,&#8221; Wiles says.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=89726772\" title=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=89726772\">Read or listen to it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your cat probably has more mercury in its system than you do, and your dog has twice as much of the chemicals found in stain-resistant carpets and couches. That&#8217;s the conclusion of an environmental group that tested pets for a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=5713\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,140,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-energy-natural-resources","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}