Pollution risks to people slip through net in tests on fish »
Posted by: Aidenag 1 year, 1 month agoA new class of organic pollutants in the environment which could pose risks to people's health has been identified by scientists. The chemicals, used in a wide range of pesticides and cosmetics, have been unwittingly ignored by regulators, who have assumed them to be safe.
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militantveg1 year, 1 month ago
We've known since the early '70s about mercury poisoned fish. Fish aren't factory farmed, but that's starting to change, with the arrival of aquaculture. In his Pulitzer Prize nominated "Diet for a New America", John Robbins exposed the cruelty behind modern factory farming. In his 2001 book, "The Food Revolution", he discusses fishing.
In "A Vegetarian Sourcebook", Keith Akers writes:
"There are signs that the fishing industry (which is quite energy-intensive) has already overfished the oceans in several areas. And fish could never play a major role in the world's diet anyway; the entire global fish catch of the world, if divided among all the world's inhabitants would amount to only a few ounces of fish per person per week."
Akers concludes from this, and other statistics, that providing the entire world with a Western diet is absurd. I quote his arguments and statistics in "The Politics of Vegetarianism."
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