[8note]

If you feed mercury to the chicken as a chixk, then eat it as an adult, do you get the mercury?

[josephcsible]

Life can create, modify, and break chemical bonds, but can't create, modify, or destroy elements. Vitamins can get metabolized into other compounds but mercury stays mercury.

[robbedpeter]

This thread reads like a Monty Python sketch.

Because... fertilizer is mercury!