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The US owes it to the Vietnamese people to clean up the arsenic, but of course they're never going to do that. I know several elderly Vietnamese who developed leukemia after serving in the war.

If you eat rice, please eat white not brown, parboil it with a ratio of 4:1 water to rice, and dump the water afterwards [0].

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004896972...

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If the US was gonna absolve itself of it’s past sins for all countries they’d double or triple the national debt a few times, just trying to rectify what they did to Vietnam & the middle east would be near impossible, then you also have Cuba and probably a bunch more countries I’m forgetting cause this is just off the top of my head.

Not that you’re not making a great point but sadly as you said, it’s never happening

Regarding cleaning up arsenic, straight from the pdf, "Arsenic can never be removed from the environment."

Regarding rice, straight from the pdf, "Organic arsenic is found in soil, water, and food around the world, and is not harmful except at high doses."

Take your arsenic news with a grain of salt, while it is dangerous this pdf is a bit hyperbolic.

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