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Because each step in the food chain tends to concentrate any substance that bioaccumulates. One example is vitamin A. Fish have lots of it in their livers, seal
by chongli 7y ago
Because each step in the food chain tends to concentrate any substance that bioaccumulates. One example is vitamin A. Fish have lots of it in their livers, seals eat fish, polar bears eat seals. Polar bears have so much vitamin A that eating the liver of a polar bear is almost certainly going to be fatal.
So if your food waste contains heavy metals (as another example) and you feed that to the ant larva and in turn feed the ant larva to fish, you're likely to end up with fish that have high levels of heavy metals.
- thaumasiotes 7y agoWhat bioaccumulation occurs between pre-consumer food and post-consumer food? It's the same -- already dead -- substance. Are you worried about chicken bones getting thrown away along with lead and mercury, and picking those metals up before being fed to the ants?