The real cost of oily fish.
That doctors have raised doubts over the benefits of eating oily fish comes as no surprise. I was actually thinking about the issue just the other day, but it is something myself and surely many others have been waiting for for ages. It's not that I suspect eating oily fish will be detrimental to our health, or even that I doubt the beneficial aspects of Omega 3 consumption particularly. But whenever "the experts" bestow their blessings on one food type or another, it always seems their claims are liable to be disputed at some point, and eventually rubbished.Science is nothing more than the continual advance towards an as yet (and as always will be) unknown goal. Where will space exploration really lead to? What will the discovery of the absolutely healthy, body clock defying diet really achieve? Eternal life seems unlikely but many are seeking it anyway.
All that is definite is that on this path towards enlightenment wrong turns are inevitably taken, and backtracks need to made. So if you're going to take notice of every new miracle food that gets heralded in on a wave of corporate/scientific/governmental promo-ganda then you're probably going to end up in a real mess.
One day you'll have stuffed yourself full with genetically modified, pesticide-reared tomatoes, next thing you know a new scientific study will discover the importance in flower essences, transported via bug wings, in the development of the tomato's coronary-reducing capabilities.
Or something.
Personally, I love eating fish, it tastes good. Forget any scientific studies claiming it might not be so healthy after all, the only reason I eat less than I would like is because it's so bloody expensive.
posted by Phu @ 2:19 pm
2 Comments:
with all the pollution out there maybe a lot of the oil in oily fish is actually petroleum-based. after all they are working on GMO fish and maybe Exxon wants oil fish to keep it in business when the planet runs out of oil. these fish could already have excaped into the wild like the GMO salmon that keep getting away and forcing out wild species from the ecosystem. i fried a fish once that i caught and it smelled like hot motor oil when i made it. i think they're out there. and monsanto drops bombs of roundup herbicide on farmers so they're probably seeding the oceans with these petro-fish too.
now there's something I hadn't considered!
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