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Get Off the Gill: 99 Reasons to Stop Eating Fish

http://www.organicauthority.com/99-Reasons-Stop-Eating-Fish

Seafood is not the healthy or humane food you thought it was. Want proof? Here are 99 reasons to give up the gills, for good.
1.Seafood is the number one cause of food poisoning in the U.S.
2.More than 80 percent of the farmed fish consumed in the U.S. comes from Asia, where pig and chicken feces are commonly fed to the fish—as their main source of food.
3.Farmed fish live in dense, dirty pens…
4.…Which pollute the oceans and fresh waters.
5.The run-off damages coral reefs and other oceanic populations.
6.Fish are commonly contaminated with toxins like mercury.
7.Farmed fish are fed high levels of antibiotics.
8.And are also fed GMO soy.
9.So the more we farm fish, the more we support GMOs.
10.And GMOs require pesticides.
11.Herbicides.
12.And chemical fertilizers.
13.GMO crops support major multinational corporations that compete with small scale family farms.
14.Farmed fish are often fed wild-caught fish. Yes, that’s right! Fish farms are putting pressure on wild populations. How does that make sense, exactly?
15.Farmed fish are often injected with colorings to make them look healthier.
16.Farmed fish can be at risk from predators that can rip through enclosures and cost farms millions in losses and damages.
17.Fish can escape farms and breed, causing overpopulation that throws ecosystems out of whack.
18.Escaped farmed fish can introduce disease and compete with native species for food.
19.According to Food and Water Watch “Dredging, drilling and other sediment and bottom habitat disturbances, can cause displacement of ocean wildlife and other potentially significant ecological changes.”
20.The Great Lakes are overrun with plastic and toxins.
21.So is the ocean.
22.Fish eat plastic and other manmade materials that poison them and the people who eat them.
23.Fukushima, anyone?
24.How about BP’s Gulf oil spill?
25.Eighty-five percent of the world’s fisheries are being harvested at capacity or are in decline.
26.Investigations throughout New York City found frequent fraud when it came to fish. Consumers paying for higher priced fish often got cheaper varieties instead of what they ordered.
27.According to researchers at the University of Illinois, fish-eaters with high levels of PCBs in their blood have difficulty recalling information they learned just 30 minutes earlier.
28.Imported catfish are fed antibiotics banned in the U.S.
29.Caviar? Only if you like contributing to overfishing and endangering sturgeon and beluga populations.
30.Atlantic cod is only one step above being listed as endangered.
31.Eel is like a sponge for PCBs.
32.“Imported farmed shrimp comes with a whole bevy of contaminants: antibiotics, residues from chemicals used to clean pens, filth like mouse hair, rat hair, and pieces of insects,” according to Food and Water Watch.
33.F&WW states that Populations of Atlantic flounder, sole, and halibut “are as low as 1% of what’s necessary to be considered sustainable for long-term fishing.”
34.Salmon, one of the more popular fish species, is also heavily farmed in unsanitary conditions that breed infections and disease.
35.Think you’re eating Alaskan King Crab? Imported crab comes from Russia, where limits on fish harvests aren’t strongly enforced, and even worse, it’s often mislabeled as Alaskan King Crab, which is more sustainable.
36.So, you personally might not eat shark fins, but close to 100 million sharks are killed each year for their fins.
37.When shark populations die, other species proliferate and throw ecosystems out of whack.
38.According to a report by the General Accounting Office, the seafood industry is dangerously underregulated.
39.Jellyfish populations are exploding thanks to overfishing of sardines.
40.Dolphins and whales still get caught in fishing nets and lines.
41.And the more we overfish the oceans, the fewer sources of food for dolphin and whale friends.
42.It’s not just the dolphins and whales, either. Marine turtles, seabirds, sharks and corals die “due to inefficient, illegal, and destructive fishing practices,” says the World Wildlife Fund.
43.According to the WWF, “the global fishing fleet is 2-3 times larger than what the oceans can sustainably support.”
44.And, “53% of the world’s fisheries are fully exploited, and 32% are overexploited, depleted, or recovering from depletion.”
45.And…”Most of the top ten marine fisheries, accounting for about 30% of all capture fisheries production, are fully exploited or overexploited.”
46.Plus, “newly fished populations, such as monkfish, Patagonian toothfish, blue ling, and orange roughy, have already collapsed in some areas.”
47.And, “most deep-water species are likely to be over-exploited—and as many as 40% of the world’s fishing grounds are now in waters deeper than 200m.”
48.And, this is really startling: “Unless the current situation improves, stocks of all species currently fished for food are predicted to collapse by 2048.” (In case you haven’t looked at a calendar in a while, that’s only 35 years from now.)
49.According to the Monterey Bay Aquarium, “Scientists estimate that we have removed as much as 90 percent of the large predatory fish such as shark, swordfish and cod from the world’s oceans.”
50. And “the world’s oceans are in a state of “silent collapse,” threatening our food supply, marine economies, recreation and the natural legacy we leave our children.”
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50. And “the world’s oceans are in a state of “silent collapse,” threatening our food supply, marine economies, recreation and the natural legacy we leave our children.” so stop eating fish, and even if they go extinct, they weren't food, not for vegetarians.

I think I'm beginning to fathom the logic.

 

What logic? It is nothing more than a fear-mongering plan to centralize control over our lives. They are de-growthers who are worse than ZPG because they actually want to shrink the population of mankind upon the earth. Of course they are to exclude their own from this reduction in life force.

 

I was prepping for a facetious argument that in the same warped logic of vegetarianism cures the loss of fish as loss not of a food source, that co2 reduction could be accomplished by the socialists intent on that "cause celebre" if they would simply cease exhaling 40,000 parts per million co2 with every breath. Simply remove breathing air from their "diet'!

 

In America the average living age for men is 80 years old with 36% die before the age of 63 years old.
Us older ones who have reaped the golden age of earths resources by killing for fun, sport and greed the defenseless earthlings as well as destroying forest, oceans, lakes and rivers including the air quality we actually breath to exist.

As an instinct for survival of our own species, others care about our children and their children's welfare which sadly in my opinion they have no chance in hell for a inventible nuclear war on any day plus the over population, disease and famine in the near future is most certainly if by some miracle a nuclear war will not happen at any day and will try my best to prepare my children's defense for the grime future even against such huge odds.

Climate deniers are the same as people who have terminal cancer or aids who go into a denial thinking they will not die of their diseases to the point are so greedy that they are in denial of natural death.

 

I empathize with your concern for future generations, but for a different reason.
They can solve their problems if they are free to do so.
We are on a slippery slope of erosion of freedoms in this country, and socialism is the enemy.
AGW is a socialist plot.
I'm worried about the death of individual freedoms in USA, if the socialists succeed.
I fight to preserve and restore them.

 

There was the roman warm period 2000 years ago and the medieval warm period 1000 years ago, and the current warming is the same cycle. All of the observable universe is cycles.
If we cut the entire worlds CO2 contribution by man by half, it would result in a tenth of a degree C less warming. The math has been done.
The proposal by socialists is to tax energy and spend the money on furthering their agenda, ie taking over the entire planet.

I suspect doubling mans CO2 would probably only raise the temperature a tenth of a degree.
Or less.
Since water vapor, the dominant GHG by magnitudes, is NOT the feedback warming mechanism the climate scientists build into their models, but rather is a moderating feedback reducing temperatures (by half) and knowing CO2 only absorbs (and re-radiates) a narrow amount of infrared frequencies, and probably already is capturing total the radiation falling on earth in those frequencies.
I'd say natural global warming exists but neither manmade nor can it be stopped by man.
We can and must stop the socialists from taking over the USA.
And we need to do something about overfishing and garbage in the oceans.
I am delighted to read the fish are in deep water.
I reported in other posts that in my many ocean crossings, using favorable currents as my routes, I observed a constant circus of life. Whales, flying fish, sailfish, ect. And the sea glowed red at night in my searchlight, from the reflected eyes of shrimp and squid.
So the shallows (200 meters and less) have been fished out.
That's sad.
Seafood prices rising I imagine.
But it doesn't indicate the fish are going extinct!

 

I'm not afraid to die. Not in denial. Dying is a natural part of the life cycle.
When we had dinner at grandmas, and I a kid, while the dishes were being removed, grandma would whisper to me " Keep your fork. Something good is coming after!".
I have instructed my wife when I die, bury me with a fork in my hand.

Unfortunately for some others, they fear dying, as they see no future in it.

 

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There will be chaos: Big Oil’s collapse and the birth of a new world order

http://www.salon.com/2016/01/14/the...e_and_the_birth_of_a_new_world_order_partner/

 

this explains the gas pump prices less than 2$ per gallon we are enjoying now?
hooray!

 

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The World Health Organisation has issued a stark new warning about deadly levels of pollution in many of the world’s biggest cities, claiming poor air quality is killing millions and threatening to overwhelm health services across the globe.

http://www.theguardian.com/environm...-deadly-pollution-levels-world-biggest-cities

 

Some folks insist on living in congested cities and some folks choose to live in deserts. Crowd that many people in a small area, you get poor air quality and high crime. In the desert it's drought. In Los Angeles it's desert AND congestion.
Their choice to live that way means it's not my problem.

 

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A World Economic Forum survey has identified the failure to prepare for climate change as having the potential to cause the most harm among risks facing the global economy over the next decade.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11575337

 

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Is it okay for vegetarians to eat jellyfish?
http://www.theguardian.com/science/...vegetarians-to-eat-jellyfish-food-environment

 

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Denmark produced 42% of its electricity from wind turbines last year according to official data, the highest figure yet recorded worldwide.
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jan/18/denmark-broke-world-record-for-wind-power-in-2015