Along with simply not liking the taste of fish, I also cringe whenever some medical authority recommends some X helpings of fish a week because I know from reports that a lot of fisheries have shrunk or even collapsed. So this report from Katherine Martinko on Treehugger came as unwelcome confirmation of my concerns:
[fish biologist Laura] McDonnell is not alone in choosing to eliminate seafood from her diet. Famed marine biologist Sylvia Earle will not eat any fish, based on the sharp decline in fish populations she’s observed over a lifetime of work. Similarly, Lori Marino, president of the Whale Sanctuary Project, chooses not to eat fish because, “just like land animals, they are ‘sentient beings and we do not need to eat them to live healthy lives’.” (via NewsDeeply)
Of course, if we all follow along then either we become land meat eaters – or vegans. If the former, then we push along industries which use up vegetable matter at alarming rates or may put chickens in inhumanely crowded quarters.
There’s too many of us, and we’re eating too much meat. And I’m one of them.
