Saturday, July 10, 2004

then fish are healthy eating ?

HM Govt has told us to eat x grammes fatty fish /week as part of a healthy diet.
Unfortunately what they haven't told us is just how healthy are the fish themselves.
Fish are quite high up the food chain as marine life goes, so they concentrate toxins found in their environment.
The North Sea is a natural toxic bowl as much of Europes waste ends there and has done since before the start of the Industrial Revolution , of course. It has the dubious distinction of being almost enclosed so it doesn't have much of a cleansing current, so poisons can and do accumulate.
Unfortunately this has had the effect of killing the marine life tryng to survive there. Much of the fish harvest cod/haddock and other bottom feeders have ulcers , tumours and other serious problems . Once again the media dont seem to want to know.
Oh , newspapers in the UK have articles saying that fresh water fish arent breeding too well because the males are too female [see yesterdays rant] - pity they cant go that extra step- or they just dont want to alarm us......
Anyway--- you cant drink water, or eat fish, breed easily. Whatever next?

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