Which Fish Is the Best Fish? Consider Omega-3s, Sustainability, and Mercury

Pertty fish. Fish have big heads but small brains.

Nikki of PA 10:59AM May 22, 2012

i am thinking about a pajamma fish

daijsha williams of MT 3:22PM February 07, 2012

In the United States, the Pacific West Coast shellfish lobbyests who work for the multimillion dollar coporations have successfully suppressed information regarding the excessively high Cadmium levels of their farmed oysters and scallops. These companies have oyster farms in BC and are marketing highly contaminated oysters in the US that are rejected by other countries that have established maximum safetly levels. In Canada, The provincial and federal governments, along with the shellfish aquaculture industry, are suppressing compelling scientific evidence that the high cadmium levels in BC farmed oysters and areas in Washington such as Hood River pose severe health risks, especially to lactating women, children, women with low blood iron, smokers, people with renal failure. The Canada Health warning to limit BC oysters to around 12 a month is buried within the Canada Food Inspection Agency website. This warning is cited by many US scientists. Accompanying the warning is the deceiplie that there is no scientific evidence linking BC farmed oysters to health risks. BC oysters 2.63 ppm (parts per million) exceed every international food safety standard (New Zealand, Australia, European Commission, and WHO) Canada and the US, influenced by an active shellfish growers lobby and the various government levels devoted to increasing the cultivation of BC oysters and scllops–without regulations) Hong Kong has a 2 ppm maximum Cadmium level and has turned back BC oysters because of their excessively high cadmium levels.

Despite the high Cadmium levels in BC waters like Baynes Sound, the government continues to approve the expansion of oyster lease sites and the Canada Food Inspection Agency continues to approve of oysters that are in excess of food safety guidelines; the industry continues to market oysters as wholesome to all adults and children. This collusion of the industry and governments puts high risk people (First Nations Groups who smoke and eat organ meat of wildgame are at the highest risk) at greater risk. Consumers have a right to know they are eating food that is contaminated so they can make up their own minds. the health Canada warning to reduce consumption to 12 oysters A MONTH needs to be made public, not buried in another weblink. There are no controls on siting oyster leases in the most contaminated waters or in regulating that oysters are harvested only in the summer when cadmium levels are the lowest.

If Cadmium poisoning created an immediate health reaction we would not have contaminated BC oysters. However, Cadmium accumulates in the kidney and other tissues to create disastrous health effects–cancers of soft tissue, renal failure, osteoporosis. Speak out against a nonregulated industry that is poisoning the unsuspecting. Force the government to establish cadmium safety guidelines for oysters as in Europe, Australia, Newzealand, Hong Kong. Google cadmium in BC oysters to read the studies that are not industry funded or driven.

lacon of WA 3:36PM December 10, 2009

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Wjlibmdx of UT 11:25AM July 15, 2009