DISQUS

Rob · 12 months ago

Which fish to eat and which not to eat? Which one is endangered this week, and which is contaminated with mercury? Your fish-eating decisions can be made really simple: become a vegetarian and eat none of them. You won't be responsible for overfishing, species extinction, or ecosystem disruption. You won't be consuming mercury from coal-fired power plants (which we have far too many of as a result of no commitment to green energy -- thanks, George Bush, for yet another lovely parting gift!) You won't be ingesting persistent organic pollutants from chlorinated chemicals (thanks, vinyl industry!) which your body can't expel and eventually cause cancer. If we were living in the world of 1,000 years ago, fish might be a healthy food. Today, not so much.

sherifffruitfly · 12 months ago

You're so evil. I'm a level 7 vegan - I don't eat anything that casts a shadow.

Damn bourgeois vegetarians.

MNPundit · 12 months ago

The problem is, vegetable taste bland or actively bad no matter what I throw on them. Though vast quantities of black and red-pepper help a little.

Oh well.

sherifffruitfly · 12 months ago

I know it's wrong, but DAMN does some seared ahi sound good for lunch tomorrow!

vkobaya · 12 months ago

Ahi is yellowfin, a milder, tastier tuna than bluefin. I don't get the greed to catch bluefin since they are strong tasting and not as valuable as yellowfin and albacore. Bluefin reporduce so fast and also grow so fast that if they didn't catch them for 3 years, they would nearly glut the ocean ... until they started fishing for them. The greed makes no sense as it would be so easy to let them come back if they would not make them extinct. Only thing I can think of is that they are greedy to sell them to the Japanese who prize bluefin above any other tuna, but they are not preferred eating for westerners. Japanese pay insanely exorbitant sums for bluefin. The Japanese should care too though as the Atlantic bluefin is on the verge of extinction.

S_in_Tokyo · 12 months ago

The Japanese do care. There was a program on this problem a few days ago, explaining how the Japanese representatives attending the meeting were in favor of the lower limits because they are thinking in the long term. It is only in recent years that the average Japanese has been able to afford this fish (which they like very much), but unfortunately that situation is not likely to last long now.

Verchiel · 12 months ago

Remember the 80's when the movies all featured some sort of cataclysm that led to environmental ruin and extinction?

Those scenarios are actually substantially less horrific than watching us sign off on said ruin, step by step....

MaudGonne · 12 months ago

Over here, it's people we are eliminating....

WASHINGTON — The Labor Department is racing to complete a new rule, strenuously opposed by President-elect Barack Obama, that would make it much harder for the government to regulate toxic substances and hazardous chemicals to which workers are exposed on the job.

The rule, which has strong support from business groups, says that in assessing the risk from a particular substance, federal agencies should gather and analyze “industry-by-industry evidence” of employees’ exposure to it during their working lives. The proposal would, in many cases, add a step to the lengthy process of developing standards to protect workers’ health.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/washington/30...

vkobaya · 12 months ago

Bush is looking to his legacy again. He wants his legacy to be the greatest asso that ever lived.

lewis_stoole · 12 months ago

as they say in france, "let them eat fish"

Anonymous · 12 months ago

Chris-

So, how is this Bush's fault?

Older_Wiser · 12 months ago

Fresh or frozen, I refuse to eat much fish anymore. The last flounder I purchased was horrible. I remember flounder as a firm fish, but when I baked the last batch, it was mush.

I know this is odd, but I now refuse to eat anything but yellow fin tuna (canned), pink salmon (canned) and the occasional frozen shrimp. There is so much shopping around to try to get the right fish to eat (farm raised or wild caught, for instance), I figure the occasional can of yellow fin or salmon won't kill me. And we don't have regular fish markets here, either, just what fresh stuff the supermarket has, and it's probably a week old before it's sold (and probably pre-frozen), which I won't have, just like much of the produce that's sold (which is why I buy frozen if I can't get locally).

Indigo · 12 months ago

But the EU is vital to a fully modernized Europe, nicht wahr?

Fireblazes(CheetohsandCatfood) · 12 months ago

They are no different than us. No better no worse, just like us. Despite all off the propaganda to the contrary. Too many greedy bastards in control.

anarchy · 12 months ago

eat all the fish you want 'cuz your children
won't be able to and your grandchildren
won't even know what a fish is..

me, I don't even like fish.

chalk up another raging success
for humanity.

(OK sarcasm off now)