I'm getting more and more reluctant to eat sea food that has passed through polluted water.. It would be nice to be able to raise my own in a pristine water way, but that ain't gonna happen...bottom fish, crabs, scallops and shrimp are eating polluted material in the sediment, tuna are absorbing mercury, salmon probably glow in the dark when they are caught at night,, and the problem is it's probably way to late to reverse the damage.. any body else feel the same way???
2006-10-20 22:37:19 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
yes i am horrified by what we are doing to the ocean. mollified. wtf is wrong with us? seafood is so good for you, too. especiialy the fish that live the longest, and store up the most mercury.
2006-10-20 22:41:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I live in Japan, where tons of people are eating seafood every day. And yes, some people have had problems, but the vast majority of people are OK -- and don't care. Try to eat smaller fish that are lower on the food chain (as they get higher, the poisons get concentrated), and know what the symptoms of mercury poisoning are.
If you are really worried, don't eat it. But, to be realistic, the media has promoted health scares for just about every food stuff available. Try to find out the real numbers -- and use a basic food as a comparison. For example, is tuna more dangerous than eating a grocery-store brownie? I wish a scientist would answer *that* question! The magazines and newspapers don't get many new readers with good news, unfortunately. It's in their best interest to scare us. Sometimes, they are right. But sometimes they are just exaggerating. Right now, for every "mercury-poisoning" article I've read lately, I've seen two or three articles promoting seafood. So even the experts are not sure!
Hope this helps.
2006-10-20 23:26:20 · answer #2 · answered by Madame M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋