Fish is seen as a benign, even beneficial meat, which is why some people who consider themselves vegetarians eat it. Those people are idiot posers who should die. Just kidding. But despite the health benefits of fish oil and omega 3 or whatever, eating fish carries an environmental toll. Scientists are saying that current commercial fishing practices could rid the seas of fish by 2048. This has an impact not only on the health of the ocean's complex ecosystems, but also on subsistence fishers who find their hauls diminishing because of commercial overfishing. So why not be like me and stop eating fish?
Or you can take the less extreme but still helpful step and visit the website for End of the Line, a documentary on the ill effects of overfishing. I haven't seen it, but Aaron Monson has, and it made him swear off fish. If anyone knows anything about Aaron "Fish-eater" Monson, it's that he loves eating fish!
The campaign page of the website has some helpful info about fish, as well as a neat thing where you can claim your 2 hectares of the world's oceans. Europe appears to be dominating us in that, by the way, so go claim your ocean!!
Monday, March 02, 2009
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If there is one thing that I know about my fish-eating friend Aaron Monson, it's that he would never swear off fish unless he saw a really good documentary at Sundance that scared the crap out of him. I recently viewed the Planet Earth series again and the Deep and Shallow Oceans episodes did not elicit any particular sympathy for the plight of our fish in light of commercial over-fishing, but it did scare the crap out of me from the perspective that I was scared of most of the fish featured by the footage. Now, I fear for my life because of an anticipated revenge by fish against me and all humans due to our over consumption of their friends and family. I am done. No more fish.
Actually, I have started to avoid fish, but mostly due to all of the mercury poisonings that I have been hearing about in California lately (2). However, this raises a good point that I do not take lightly. Our commerical farming system and its dependence upon NPK fertilizers has also contributed to diminishing fish populations as it creates dead zones along our coasts near river deltas. Everything is connected.
Kudos to Aaron Monson though, seriously. If it wasn't for Americans like him I don't know where I would be. NO MORE FISH FOR THIS PATRIOT.
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