Have you ever let the filter for the AC unit in your house go unchanged for a few years, taken it out, grilled it, and eaten it for dinner? Totally. You know what I'm talking about. A recent article in Mother Jones suggests that the Inuit are doing just that by eating the fish and marine life that has been their diet for millennia. The North Pole is the unlucky catch-all for the world's toxins, waste and pollutants. Now a study done of Eskimo breast milk concluded they're better off feeding their children battery acid.

And so Greenland's public health officials are torn between encouraging the Inuit to keep eating their traditional foods and advising them to reduce their consumption. In part, doctors fear the Inuit will switch to processed foods loaded with carbohydrates and sugar. "The level of contamination is very high in Greenland, but there's a lot of Western food that is worse than the poisons," Dr. Mulvad says.

This is my favorite part of the article. So what you’re saying is, their bodies might be petri dishes swimming with toxic pollutants, but at least they don’t eat like Britney Spears.

Dozens of Words for Snow, None for Pollution (Mother Jones)