Impact on environment

I am excluding meat from my diet for environmental reasons. What about fish? Does farming/catching create a significant impact?

 

Depends what fish. Someone gave me a card once that rated fish from highest to lowest as to how close they are to becoming an endangered species, or how close they are to being fished out of certain ecosystems. Some fish sold and eaten today are actually very close to being endangered.

The only safe fish to eat these days, that are free of pollution according to Dr. Weil, are wild alaskan salmon and certain kinds of sardines. Eating fish that comes from Alaska isn't exactly sustainable if you consider the travel that went into bringing it all across America. Plus I have read articles in the New York Times about how not all wild alaskan salmon is actually wild, some of it is just labelled as such.

The Health food store I go too sells eco-fish that was sustainably harvested in Alaska. That is probably your best bet for fish if your gonna eat it

 

Exactly what I was thinking drumminmama. Plus, it takes your reasoning one step farther, because if you really think it's all right for the fish to die for you to eat it, then you should be willing to do the dirty deed yourself. That was part of what pushed me to give it up finally - I realized that there's no way I'd be able to do it myself, because I thought it was wrong. But by that reasoning, I couldn't really eat what someone else caught either. (Not sure if that made any sense, it's been a long day...)

 

yes I agree
and that includes all animals, if you want to eat it go out and slaughter it yourself
S

 

Thank you all. I tend to agree. I used to stomp on the docks to scare fish away when my family would fish. *teehee* And I was never able to catch one without throwing it back. Guess I'm just not cut out for it. And yes, Alaska is quite a ways from here! Only if I get a real hankerin. . . And I don't even like salmon. Oh well. Que sera, sera. Thanks again!

 

lol... Good luck with your transitioning, Thel!

 

Fish are also a good source of dioxin and mercury. Especially freshwater fish.