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Posted on 3/9/10 at 10:16 am to Cankles
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Also, if you eat tuna, tilapia, or frozen crawfish often, chances are you would test positive for mercury. Where does your frozen seafood come from? If you're not checking before you buy, and you buy the cheap bulk packs at wal-mart, you are buying chinese, mercury tainted fish.
I avoid all of the above like the plague.
Posted on 3/9/10 at 10:19 am to BrockLanders
I never really thought about that stuff. I guess I need to pay better attention.
Posted on 3/9/10 at 10:22 am to alajones
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I never really thought about that stuff. I guess I need to pay better attention.
It's your body, so you might as well treat it right.
Personally, I just think your chances of getting quality meat/seafood are gonna be much better at say, Whole Foods or Rouse's than those Arkansas conglomerates.
Posted on 3/9/10 at 10:23 am to Cankles
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Also, if you eat tuna, tilapia, or frozen crawfish often, chances are you would test positive for mercury. Where does your frozen seafood come from? If you're not checking before you buy, and you buy the cheap bulk packs at wal-mart, you are buying chinese, mercury tainted fish.
This is true to some degree. But if you eat any long-lived predator fish like tuna or swordfish, they typically have higher levels of mercury.
Posted on 3/9/10 at 10:24 am to BrockLanders
I shop at the Commissary. But they have no fresh fish, it is all frozen. I go to Brookshire's for fish. I do buy lots of salmon, shrimp and catfish at Sam's though. I guess I should look at those more closely.
This post was edited on 3/9/10 at 10:26 am
Posted on 3/9/10 at 10:25 am to BrockLanders
Wal-Mart, Albertsons, and other large chains do have LA frozen seafood and U.S. farm raised stuff, but the point is, you have to check. If you blindly pick up the cheap, bulk pack, you may be getting something from China, where grossly polluted water is the norm.
Posted on 3/9/10 at 10:27 am to Cankles
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you may be getting something from China,
Somebody in the radio industry (can't remember who) did an experiment where they tried not to get anything at all from China...they had a real tough time pulling it off.
Posted on 3/9/10 at 10:33 am to Cankles
Mexico surprisingly has a pretty good reputation for stringent regulations on shrimp farming as far as chemicals/pesticides go.
Posted on 3/9/10 at 10:37 am to Lloyd Christmas
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It's a stupid animal, people care more about a frickin dolphin than a suffering human being
Usually animals are much nicer than people in my experience - for me, it has very little to do with "cuteness".
Posted on 3/9/10 at 10:42 am to BrockLanders
You kill all the dolphins...then what do you got? Murderous shoals of sardines roaming the oceans is what.
Posted on 3/9/10 at 10:56 am to offshoreangler
I don't think that the Japanese killing a shitload of Dolphins in their little area of the Pacific is catastrophically affecting the world wide dolphin population.
I remember in the late 80's there was abig deal about South Africans clubbing seals to death. the world was outraged and South Africans stopped doing it. Are seals endangered? No, of course not. Why shouldn't the Japs be allowed to kill the damn dolphins? Just because they are cute?
The mercury and the poisoning is a different story than the killing.
I remember in the late 80's there was abig deal about South Africans clubbing seals to death. the world was outraged and South Africans stopped doing it. Are seals endangered? No, of course not. Why shouldn't the Japs be allowed to kill the damn dolphins? Just because they are cute?
The mercury and the poisoning is a different story than the killing.
Posted on 3/9/10 at 11:02 am to alajones
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Why shouldn't the Japs be allowed to kill the damn dolphins? Just because they are cute?
It's (at least partly) because of the way they go about it. You have to also consider the fact that Japan is a pretty civilized country, so I think that also influences the level of outrage.
Posted on 3/9/10 at 11:03 am to alajones
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I don't think that the Japanese killing a shitload of Dolphins in their little area of the Pacific is catastrophically affecting the world wide dolphin population.
People are probably more sensitive about it because the Japanese are doing it, who have historically given the finger to anyone who tells them they are overfishing/killing anything in the ocean.
And because the dolphins are deemed smart and cute of course.
Posted on 3/9/10 at 11:05 am to offshoreangler
quote:FUK YOU DORPHIN, AND FUK YOU WHARER
People are probably more sensitive about it because the Japanese are doing it, who have historically given the finger to anyone who tells them they are overfishing/killing anything in the ocean.
Whales are endangered though, people should be pissed about whaling in international waters.
Posted on 3/9/10 at 11:07 am to offshoreangler
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People are probably more sensitive about it because the Japanese are doing it
I think the methodology is much more the reason - it's pretty much the antithesis of what you'd call "humane".
Not to say that things like that don't go on in the States, of course.
Posted on 3/9/10 at 11:16 am to BrockLanders
I wonder why no one has done an award winning doc on the US slaughter houses? Like how live chickens are tossed into a wood chipperesque machine, or how sheep are strung up and stabbed in the neck to bleed out, or maybe how cattle are penned in while their necks or cut and then the carcasses are moved with bulldozers.
I guess that might hit a little to close to home. I bet there wouldn't be as much bitching about the japs.
I guess that might hit a little to close to home. I bet there wouldn't be as much bitching about the japs.
Posted on 3/9/10 at 11:22 am to alajones
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I wonder why no one has done an award winning doc on the US slaughter houses? Like how live chickens are tossed into a wood chipperesque machine, or how sheep are strung up and stabbed in the neck to bleed out, or maybe how cattle are penned in while their necks or cut and then the carcasses are moved with bulldozers.
Haven't had a chance to see it, but I believe "Food Inc" discusses the above - this was a documentary also nominated this year.
Posted on 3/9/10 at 11:45 am to BrockLanders
Food, Inc. is 1000 times better than The Cove. Food, Inc. uses facts (not emotions) to get its point across. It's message isn't "Don't eat _______"; instead it's "Be smarter about what you buy and what you put into your body."
Posted on 3/9/10 at 11:49 am to PBeard
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Dolphins are also extremely smart and are the only species to have sex for fun.
The latter part of your statement is false. Bonobo monkeys (as well as other primates) have sex for fun.
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