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The Most Toxic Food in the World?

The Most Toxic Food in the World? Bricks and Mortars Lawrence Reichard             Fredrikstad, Norway - Kurt Oddekalv is big, burly, and brusque.   Oddekalv founded the Green Warriors, a Norwegian environmental group that has for 25 years been the bane of Norway's fish farm industry.   "I've been fighting them for 30 years," Oddekalv said as we drove through a rough, windswept North Atlantic landscape to see a sea-based salmon farm in Rong, Norway, about an hour northwest of Bergen, Norway's second-biggest city.             "They fooled me for the first five years, but not since" Oddekalv said with a wry smile.   Oddekalv fielded several calls as we rode.   It was a busy day.   Oddekalv had just learned that the fish- farm industry was again using a chemical it had agreed, in writing, to stop using after a relentless campaign spearheaded by Oddekalv.               At Rong we boarded a small boat and rode in cold, driving rain past a