Subject: Re: Forget Eating Fish (Was: Re: Surf fishing...)

From: [email-masked] (Lub Ras)
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 06:12:26 GMT

Dear Dr. Jai Maharaj,

I appreciate your concerns, wich are shared by me and many others.
It seems right to me to prevent eating fish from inland lakes, that
are largely polluted because of waste of toxic chemicals from
industries nearside and pesticides.
I assume that this will be the case with some lakes in the USA.
Especially the bigger"hunting"- types of fish (in the end of the
food-chain )could accumulate these toxic chemicals. I think it is a
good thing to warn for this,  backing this up with scientific reports.

There are also scientific reports reports proving the well-known
health benefits of eating fish.If you want to benefit of these
advantages without the risk of harmfull level of toxics, you could
choose to buy  the smaller types of fish, caught from the wide oceans.
Therefore I do have a suggestion to replace the slogan "Forget eating
fish" by this one:  "Be keen, buy clean" .

Best regards,
Lub Ras

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[email-masked] (Dr. Jai Maharaj) wrote:

> Forget Eating Fish

> "The  least  likely  of  all  places  in  the  world  to  find  an
> uncontaminated fish is in the United States.  We  have the dubious
> distinction of  being the world's largest  producer of pesticides.
> We  use 1.1  billion pounds  of pesticides  a year  -- about  five
> pounds for every member of the population.  This amounts to 30% of
> the entire world's use. You may be wondering if any fish are safe.
> Even for research purposes, it is impossible now for scientists to
> find  fish  anywhere  in  U.S.  waters  which  do  not carry toxic
> chemicals in their flesh.

> "A major  study reported in  Tufts University's Diet and Nutrition
> Letter compared the offspring of 242 women who ate varying amounts
> of fish from Lake Michigan. The study found that the more fish the
> mothers had eaten, the more their babies showed abnormal reflexes,
> general weakness, slower response to stimuli, and various signs of
> depression.  Even mothers  eating the  fish two  or three  times a
> month produced babies weighing seven to nine ounces less at birth,
> with smaller heads.  [To learn about contaminated fish in other US
> waters, please refer to the sources provided below.]

> "- Pimentel, D., 'Pesticides . . .'
>     BioScienc 27, March, 1977.
> "- Pimentel, D., 'Realities of a Pesticide Ban'
>     Environment, March, 1973.
> "- Turner, J., 'A Chemical Feast: Report on the Food and Drug
>     Administration,' Grossman, 1970.
> "- 'Infant Abnormalities Linked to PCB Contaminated Fish'
>     Vegetarian Times, November, 1984."
> - Robbins, John, "Diet for A New America
>     Stillpoint Publishing, 1987, pg. 334.

> *-=Om Shanti=-*  Jai Maharaj
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Lub Ras

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From: Michael F Smith <[email-masked]>
Date: 15 Jul 1995 17:22:51 GMT

Many fresh water and some salt water fish are being farmed these days. 
It would seem that they would be low in toxens.

Michael Smith

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From: [email-masked] (GotMyESPY)
Date: 30 Jul 1995 18:24:56 -0400

There is a company called "Nature's Catch" that owns fish ponds and grows
striped bass & talapia (sp?). It's supposedly very health-conscious stuff
>from  what I hear, but I've never personally had any. I think they sell to
industrial kitchens and schools mostly. 
Anyone ever hear of this place?