Is it okay to eat fish?

[tyella]

Intelligence of potential food aside, I don't eat a LOT of fish due to concerns for mercury.

Here's one site:
http://www.gotmercury.org/

Although I take the info on this site with a grain of salt (and a dash of pepper!), mercury is a BIG deal. Here in Missouri, the problems used to be with bioaccumulation of pesticides in the fatty tissues. Mercury accumulates in the muscles, and now there is a state-wide recommendation concerning eating ANY fish you catch. Only eat so much a week, if you're pregnant or a child, eat little if any...etc.

So, no big catfish (chemical issues with fish farming aside) due to pesticides in the fatty tissues, no long-lived predators because of mercury.
Pacific Salmon is supposed to be fairly safe, and I eat it about once a week or so. The populations are doing alright too, I hear. Atlantic salmon populations are troubled, if I remember correctly.

 

[Aqualung]

PETA never ceases to amaze me with their foolishness!

Fresh brook trout is one of my favorite foods, right after deer or moose tenderloin.

 

[Mike Rathnow]

Eat Fish....

You bet I do. I spend a lot of time during the winter fishing for perch, walleye, lake trout and white fish. I don't think there is any better dinner than perch. I also spend a lot of time during the rest of the year fishing. And all the fish I take home get eaten. I really can care less what PETA has to say about anything. As far as I'm concerned PETA stands for People Eating Tasty Animals.

 

[Lauren]

MMMMmmm, fish! I prefer ocean fish to freshwater, but love both. The best fish I've ever had was a catfish that I caught, walking right back to my camp, breaded it in corn meal and cooked over the fire. WOW that was good.

My boyfriend is very picky about fish and so far will only eat one or two types. He thinks he doesn't like ocean fish, but I am 75% certain that it's only because you can't get truly fresh ocean fish here in MN.

As far as the diets go, I think the South Beach diet is the most balanced "fad diet" around. I used it to make some changes in my diet and it is an excellent diet for diabetics. (Diabetes runs in my family, so I am cautious about that.) I don't adhere to it strictly, but I was, literally, a carb-junkie. I was eating so many over-processed breads, pastas, etc and it was very unhealthy for me, though I didn't realize it. Now, I eat whole-grain breads only, pasta very rarely, old-fashioned oatmeal instead of quick or instant (more fiber in the old-fashioned) and limit my sugar intake, which used to be quite high, even though I didn't eat sweets.

I had been trying for years to learn how to eat healthfully, but not quite getting it right until the South Beach diet was developed and that enabled me to FINALLY get it right.

BUT, back to topic.... FISH = YUMMY!

My boyfriend has been on South Beach for a little over a month now. He had a lot of trouble going it alone, didn't know what was good, what was bad, how much of what to eat, and I felt like some rules would do him good with a diet. I thought he would struggle with it, but after the first two days, he was fine.

He likes wheat products anyways, so he was able to adapt really well to the second stage (which is very healthy) and the fact that he is staying away from white rice, the staple of his diet sinse he was born, is astonishing.

The only part of South Beach that is unhealthy is over in the first two weeks. Then after that it is very healthy. I agree that it is the best fad diet out there.

I need to get him to like fish.

 

[itstheantitang]

I'd just like to point out that fish food is made of fish, so your fish are eating other fish.

 

[itstheantitang]

dunno if this has already been said, but

I'd just like to point out that fish food is made of fish, so your fish are eating other fish.
sorry I double posted

 

[Emg]

I think listening to anything PETA has to say ....is an incredible waste of time and good brain cells.....better to ponder the thoughts of more intelligent minds....like the thoughts of that last gnat I swatted at....or the tick I just picked off my dog...

 

[Genral72]

In some countries people eat dogs which some people find absolutely disgusting. But the culture is different there. In other words it all depends on the person if you can drink those protein shakes okay be a vegatarian.
Another thing to remember is that we are just part of the food chain.

 

[nursie]

Old thread........check original date.......

 

[Black_Moor]

(Old thread, still fun)
Ewww. the taste of anything from the water.. gag.. I go as far as.. when in the hospital I tell them i'm allergic to fish so it isn't served to me! ... but somehow a tunafish sandwich still gets served!!

Lol

But that's the simple reason why I don't eat it, not a matter of intelligance at all.. I've seen some smart cows in my growing up years, but when they're served up in my homemade steak chilli, well.. I will have to say the Chilli is the great cow equalizer.. I don't know if it was a smart cow or a dumb cow, they still taste the same