ApocaDocs: Give up seafood, save the planet?

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Posted Tue Mar 17 2009: from Globe and Mail (Canada):


	Give up seafood, save the planet? http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1237295883 Although negative views about fish consumption are almost never expressed, a group of medical and fisheries experts is making an argument against eating the seafood in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. In an analysis being released Tuesday, they say that the purported benefits of fish for such things as cardiovascular health have been overstated, while the growing demand among health aficionados for the food is destroying global fish stocks.... "The demand for fish is higher than what oceans can supply," said Rashid Sumaila, acting director of the University of British Columbia's Fisheries Centre, who predicted that many of the world's most important fisheries are going the way of Newfoundland's exhausted cod stocks.

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'Doc Jim says:

But I love sea bass!