My parent's want me to eat fish because of the health benifits like the sorce of omega 3s or something. However, fish grosses me out and I don't want to eat it! What are some good reasons that I can give them as to why I am going to stop eating fish? I am aware of the whole pestaside thing. Do fish contain many saturated fats like other meats?
2006-12-12 09:18:10 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Vegetarian & Vegan
As far as the saturated fats, no, not as much, but, as stated above, you can get omega 3's from other areas, but be careful, most of the ones you buy over the counter are from fish! Pesticides is high, there are also many bacterias in fish that are unhealthy, and many go unnoticed until someone gets sick! That is if they don't go for "hooking and suffocating animals is pure torture" side of things!
2006-12-12 09:25:13 · answer #1 · answered by Jase 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I ate fish and chicken as a veg. for a couple years, too, mainly because of concerns from my parents. There is a great plant source of omega-3's, flax, that can be mixed into anything (smoothies, pasta sauce, etc). As long as it is ground... otherwise it is not absorbed.
Also, fish contains a lot of toxins, including mercury. Especially tuna and other larger fish. They absorbe pollutants in the water they swim in. That is pretty much the only bad thing about fish I can think of. Omega 3 being the only good... but flax is much better.
2006-12-12 09:23:52 · answer #2 · answered by FrenchPat 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You could always say that the fish population is gettin lower and lower and there is mercury content in them. The mercury content varies from different species of fish and what region of the world they come from. I personally love fish and it is one of my favorite foods i try to eat more ocean fish and catching my own fish when possible in local lakes which are not polluted and i go north to wisconsin each summer so i do some fishing there.
2006-12-12 11:32:27 · answer #3 · answered by Half-pint 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mercury levels are a good reason, plus the fact that some seafood is dangerously over fished to the point of near extinction. Fis is a very low fat food, so you get no help there.
2006-12-12 09:26:49 · answer #4 · answered by McBeth 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, fish is the healthiest source of animal proteins you can find - but if you can't stand it, just explain that to your parents. Throwing up might convince them, if all else fails...
Btw, you can take omega 3 fatty acid in the form of capsules.
2006-12-12 19:03:48 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why not try the truth? Do your parents avoid all other meats for health reasons, or were there other aspects involved? Maybe tell them that you do not condone the consumption of meat in any form, if that's what this is all about.
2006-12-12 09:27:20 · answer #6 · answered by john k 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can get Omega 3 from other sources such a flaxseeds so you could use that as an arguement.
2006-12-12 09:20:37 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Start eating seaweed and get omega3 from nuts and seeds. Flax seed oil and hemp seeds have omega3. You shouldn't cook the flax seed and keep it refrigerated. Wild salmon have omega3 that they get from eating a certain kind of algea. Farmed salmon have way less. Maybe you can take a omega3 supplement to satify them?
2006-12-13 08:49:26 · answer #8 · answered by Joyce T 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
go to the source link and go to "peta tv" then find what videos they have on fishing and eating fish. they are full of facts against eating fish.
good luck!
2006-12-12 09:23:14 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You could explain that eating vegetables AND fish means your diet still includes SOME valuable protein, and that your goal is to limit it altogether, so if you keep eating fish you will never get to be as unhealthy as you want to.
What are your 'canine' teeth for, again?
2006-12-12 09:26:06 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋