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- mydo
As you've probably heard they're aren't many blue fin tuna left. I'm going to stop eating it to do my part to help save stocks.
problem is. I love tuna sashimi, and if it dies out, will i have wasted my opportunity to "enjoy it while it lasts".
Should i reconsider?
- ukit0
I'm sure we'll be able to clone them soon.
- oey0
why dont you use your ass while it lasts?!
- lowimpakt0
either way, just accept your responsibility for making it extinct.
- sofakingbanned0
they farm them... just fyi
- lowimpakt0
I'm not normally a big fan of emotional documentaries but this was watchable
- torrent http://isohunt.com/d…DrBombay
- SPAM
Every copy of this online is a fake that wants you to install a trojan to open it.Miesfan
- Hombre_Lobo0
Tuna is amazing. I eat a tin everyday, but the over fishing is a horrible though.
If you eat a lot tuna be sure to eat lime pulp to process the mercury found in tuna, it gets stored in your kidneys other wise and isn't good for you.
- moldero0
I love sushi grade tuna, but quit not because of the over fishing but because of the insane mercury levels.
this doc "the cove" is about dolphin slaughters, & feeding the Japanese without them even knowing about it, but it gets into mercury poisoning. theres 1 scene I cant seem to find online but its on the extended scenes on the DVD, where the documentary guys interview some scientists and their meeting is at a sushi restaurant, when the documentary guys ask "why aren't you guys eating sushi" they replied something like "are you kidding me, were scientists, we know how much mercury are in these fish"
anyways, the documentary is pretty good, check it.
- CALLES0
hey man! for human minds... the more scarce... the tastier... and makes it easier for me to justify the 300$ on a tuna roll...
- utopian0
You will also lower your Mercury intake!
Tuna has one of the highest amounts of Mercury:
http://howmuchfish.com
http://www.nrdc.org/health/effec…
- Douglas0
The perfectly marbled super fatty glistening stuff that melts on your tongue is like heaven. Makes me want to drop a couple hundred dollars on sushi right now.
- ItTango0
I too am a tuna hound, I'm sure you guys are hip to this:
from WEB MD...
Dec. 18, 2008 -- Actor Jeremy Piven has ended his role in the Broadway revival of the David Mamet play Speed-the-Plow after being diagnosed with a "high mercury count."Mercury is an element found throughout the environment. High levels of exposure to mercury can harm the brain, heart, kidneys, lungs, and immune system of people of all ages, especially fetuses, according to background information from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
WebMD spoke with Carlon Colker, MD, FACN, FACSM, who is treating Piven. Colker is the chief executive officer and medical director of Peak Wellness Inc. in Greenwich, Conn., and Beverly Hills, Calif.
Does Piven have mercury poisoning?
"The word poisoning implies some surreptitious act, like we poison rats," Colker tells WebMD. "The proper term is mercury toxicity. And the answer is 'yes' to mercury toxicity."Colker says Piven's original mercury level was "shockingly elevated" at nearly six times the upper tolerable limit and the highest Colker had ever seen in his practice.
"You can imagine how stunned I was," Colker says.
What were Piven's symptoms?
Colker says Piven's symptoms started with "extreme fatigue and exhaustion" that began around the time Speed-the-Plow started. Colker says Piven didn't want to quit the show at that point, but his symptoms progressed to "profound neuromuscular weakness ... dizziness and nausea," says Colker.At that point, Colker hospitalized Piven for three days at an unnamed hospital and brought in a cardiologist and neurologist who agreed with Colker's approach. Colker says the cardiologist checked on Piven's heart rhythm, which is now normal, and recommended "enforced rest" for Piven "because he knows Jeremy would crawl back to that stage if he could," Colker says. Piven is no longer in the hospital.
What caused Piven's mercury levels to soar?
Colker attributes Piven's high mercury level to fish in his diet."He was eating sushi twice a day for years ... and this is the problem," says Colker. The most common way that people are exposed to mercury is through fish and seafood, according to the FDA.
In March 2004, the FDA and EPA issued the following advice for pregnant women, women who might become pregnant, nursing mothers, and young children about mercury in fish and shellfish:
Don't eat shark, swordfish, king mackerel, or tilefish because they contain high levels of mercury.
Eat up to 12 ounces per week of a variety of fish and shellfish that are lower in mercury, such as shrimp, canned light tuna, salmon, pollock, and catfish.
Limit albacore tuna to a maximum of 6 ounces per week, since it's higher in mercury than canned light tuna.
Check local advisories about the safety of fish in your local waters. If no advice is available, limit your intake of local fish to a maximum of 6 ounces per week, and don't eat other fish that week.
The FDA and EPA note that fish is a healthy part of the diet and for most people, eating fish doesn't cause health problems.In August 2008, researchers reported that some Ayurvedic (traditional Indian) medicines that they bought online contained mercury and other metals. Colker says Piven wasn't taking Ayurvedic medicines but was taking unnamed Chinese herbs "for general wellness."
Those herbs "may have contributed" but sushi was probably the main issue, according to Colker.
- Hombre_Lobo0
Thanks for the more in depth info tango.
Can you give us a link to the source? Cheers bro :)
- ukit0
Are more people getting sick from this? I mean, it sucks for Jeremy Piven, but he's just one guy in a world of several billion...
- Peter0
I support anything that helps the sushi-trend to decline, worldwide.
I just can't get with hip people anymore.
"The Cove", however, was nothing but sensationalistic douchebaggery. It was M Moore played by hippies, it was Dolphin hugging old farts reaching too far for conclusions, it was downright horrible. I don't support that movie as much as it may have helped my cause.
- Miesfan0
The mercury, here,
http://www.sustainablesushi.net/…
- ukit0
What about salmon?