Fish, Whales, & Our Oceans

    "Fish live in water that is so polluted, you would never dream of
    drinking it. But you’re ingesting this toxic brew-bacteria,
    contaminants, heavy metals-every time you eat fish. Fish’s bodies
    absorb toxic chemicals in the water around them, and the
    chemicals become more concentrated as they move up the food
    chain. Big fish eat little fish, with the bigger fish (such as tuna and
    salmon) absorbing chemicals from all the other fish they eat.


    Fish farming, or 'aquaculture,' has become a billion-dollar industry,
    and more than 30 percent of all the sea animals consumed each
    year are now raised on these 'farms.' Fish farms will surely become
    even more prevalent as our natural fisheries become exhausted.


    All fish farms are rife with pollution, disease, and suffering,
    regardless of their location, and often they squander resources—it
    can take 5 pounds of wild-caught fish to produce just 1 pound of
    farmed fish—and, they pollute the environment with tons of fish
    feces, antibiotic-laden fish feed, and diseased fish carcasses.




    Fish on aquafarms spend their entire lives in cramped, filthy enclosures, and many suffer from parasitic infections, diseases, and debilitating injuries.
    Conditions on some farms are so horrendous that 40 percent of the fish may die before farmers can kill and package them for food. In short, fish
    farms bring suffering and ecological devastation everywhere they go. These practices are not only cruel, but completely impractical and bad for the
    environment."
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    Trader Joe's Policies are hurting our oceans! According to the latest Sustainable Seafood Scorecard from Greenpeace, Trader Joe’s gets a big fat
    F, the worst of all national supermarket chains, for continuing to sell imperiled fish such as orange roughy, Chilean sea bass, and swordfish.
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    "Fish often carry contaminants from polluted waterways. About 40% of fish samples have so much bacterial contamination that they have already
    begun to spoil before they are sold. Fish are also often contaminated with PCBs, which have been linked to cancer and birth defects. Consumer
    Reports found PCBs in 43% of salmon, 50% of whitefish, and 25% of swordfish. The US Food and Drug Administration and the US Environmental
    Protection Agency warned pregnant women, women who may become pregnant, breastfeeding women, and children to limit their consumption of
    fatty fish because it contains mercury, which can also contribute to birth defects, kidney damage, impaired mental development, and even cancer."    
    - Dr. Neal Barnard


    "Every single species of large wild fish from the tropics to the poles has been fished so systematically over the past 50 years that just 10 percent
    of each type remains." (Study by marine biologists Ransom Myers of Dalhousie University in Halifax and Boris Worm of the Institute for Marine
    Science in Kiel, Germany).


    "We are tampering with the life-support system of the planet and that's not a good thing to do," (said by Dr. Boris Worm in regards to our oceans,
    Emmy-Noether Fellow in Marine Ecology at the German Institute).


    Whales and other sea life are getting stranded and cannot communicate because of such high noise levels
    in our oceans (caused by humans, of course):

    "With their groans, clicks, booms and shrieks, marine mammals send warnings, point out good sources of food, and attract mates. But over the past
    four decades, says Clark, more and more man-made noises have been invading their acoustic universe. The noise produced by ocean-going
    humans falls into the same low-to-mid frequency range as many whale calls. Clark believes this acoustic competition has drastically reduced the
    distance over which whales can communicate and may be drowning them out altogether...A report released December 3 by the International Fund for
    Animal Welfare - or IFAW - warns of the potential adverse effects of increasing noise pollution. In addition to impeding marine mammal
    communication and masking sounds produced by predators and prey, ocean noise may cause animals to lose their way, or it could interfere with
    essential behaviors like feeding and breeding.The report also contends that ocean noise has resulted in injury and even death by driving stressed
    animals to become entangled in fishing nets or to strand themselves on shore." (VOA News)


    The songs that whales and dolphins use to communicate, orient themselves and find mates are being drowned out by human-made noises in the
    world's oceans, UN officials and environmental groups said...that sound pollution -- everything from increasing commercial shipping and seismic
    surveys to a new generation of military sonar -- is not only confounding the mammals, it also is further threatening the survival of these endangered
    animals."
    (IFAW) Read Article


    Whaling Continues to be Allowed as the Japanese Manipulate the Law:
    "Japan insists it must hunt endangered whales for research purposes.  Oddly enough, at the same time the controversial hunt is underway, many
    Japanese restaurants are starting to feature new menu items made from whale meat.  The restaurant owners reason that while the hunt is only for
    research, it would be a shame to 'waste' the resulting meat, hence its appearance on menus.  The argument would be more believable if the vendors
    of the meat weren't so enthusiastic about it.  One chef has even invented a special 'whale curry' for the occasion...If Japan only plans their hunt for
    scientific purposes, it's very peculiar that restaurants are acting as if whale meat is back to stay for good.  Perhaps there's no end of 'scientific
    research' to be undertaken when you're working on new recipes."
    (IFAW) Read Article










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