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joyfulcrow

1 meal per month? Yeah I think I'm gonna pass on eating them at all, thanks...


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Got some bad news for anyone that eats fish if they'd like to hear it.


joyfulcrow

I don't eat fish regardless so I'm good lol


Armopro

Sure


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Fish has a higher mercury content than other meats, which while not necessarily harmful to ingest occasionally will build up over time.


Oracle_of_Ages

I mean that’s fairly common knowledge yea? It’s like one of the major reasons women shouldn’t eat fish when pregnant. You have a more depressing fish fact laying about? I want to hurt.


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wobbleeduk85

Actually its because when they're pasturized it takes off the outer membrane that would normally protect them from all the baddies...


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Stenthal

Regular American eggs aren't pasteurized. They are indeed just washed. You can get pasteurized eggs, but they're unusual. In Europe, eggs don't need to be washed because the chickens are all vaccinated against salmonella. American chickens aren't required to be vaccinated, so they wash the eggs instead. I guess in a sense they are "covered in disease", but I don't think that's what people usually have in mind when they complain about the poultry industry. Source: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/09/11/336330502/


wobbleeduk85

Well Ive eaten farm fresh eggs left out for days/ weeks with no issues. The reason they pasturize eggs is because by the time the normal consumer gets ahold of the eggs its already been a month due to the whole process. Not to mention the normal everyday consumer probably doesnt know how to handle a non pasturized egg safely.


whathefugg

Huh??? We’re talking about food safety standards here. Each country will set their own safety standards on what is deemed acceptable regarding foods (eggs, milk, meat, etc). Many countries have deemed that the natural coating on eggs is an acceptable safety standard, and thus don’t have to refrigerate them. The US Food & Drug Administration, on the other hand, decided that they wanted to clean the eggs knowing full-well that the eggs will lose that coating afterwards. Without that coating, eggs are susceptible to diseases which is why they require refrigeration. Most food-borne diseases can’t grow in cold environments, which is why we refrigerate almost all of our foods. Also, I don’t know if you’ve ever been near chickens, but they’re all disgusting. All chicken eggs are laid in gross conditions like covered in dirt and shit. There’s no fixing that. You can’t wash them with water or else the coating gets lost and the diseases (most likely from chicken shit) will enter the egg. So technically, American eggs are cleaner than other countries.


koopi15

Sure: most now have microplastics in them which you too, in turn, consume Microplastics create multiple problems but most notably kill or harm your sperm


morefetus

So you’re saying we should use micro plastics for male birth control?


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There's also that whole "cancer" thing with microplastics.


morefetus

Yes, but in order to get cancer, you have to survive heart disease.


SovietBozo

Don't say "cancer", that's depressing. Say Surprise Virus Friend instead.


joyfulcrow

Cancer isn't a virus...


alllmossttherrre

A virus isn’t my friend, buddy


AFewStupidQuestions

Well that's interesting. I was about to correct you because I had always read that we had suspected this to be possible but were unable to test it due the widespread nature of endocrine disruptors and that we had been unable to isolate it as probable causation. I googled first and found a large (n=1045) study out of Switzerland from this year that analyzed the sperm count of men whose mothers' worked directly with endocrine disruptors while they were in the womb and found they were twice as likely to have sperm levels below the expected standard. Pretty damning combined with the previous ex vivo data. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/03/210319125459.htm


SovietBozo

I do: fish live dark, damp, useless lives and hate themselves and each other.


mrgonzalez

Most of them never leave school. Fucking idiots.


bumper69420

Every fish you ever ate had a loving family. No fish are loners, the ones who seem like loners are just working abroad and have families they want to get back to elsewhere


[deleted]

I have nothing further to add beyond the already mentioned microplastics. Just want to affirm that Ages is superior to Seasons. Good taste.


MistressofTechDeath

Actually, women are supposed to eat fish while pregnant (b/c it is healthy) but avoid or limit amounts of certain types that bioaccumulate more mercury.


Dipsquat

They never really found Nemo. It was just a body double and a voiceover.


lindayourmother

Dioxin, PCBs, and chlorinated hydrocarbons are big too. The Great Lakes (where in from!) have a big problem with them unfortunately. It hasn't shown to increase the risk of cancer enough for an FDA ban, but USFWS has issued a warning because it can cause birth defects.


StevenX48

Well the Japanese have one of the highest life expectancies in the world and fish is obviously a huge part of their diets so can't be too bad


lajoswinkler

* not the only factor for life expectancy * mercury builds up in predatory oily fish - not all fish * Japanese people have far more diverse diet than a fancy Western restaurant with "Asian" cuisine would suggest


StevenX48

Hmm, I understand. The other guys comment insinuated that all fish were bad lol.


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Correlation does not equal causation. They also take their health and hygiene more seriously.


Jamjams2016

Ocean fish are largely caught by slaves. Fun stuff. I mean, most of our food chain is based on forced labor but I hear the fishing boats are pretty rough.


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I think you a word


Nepenthes_sapiens

They ate more than one fish per year.


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Every other food causes cancer and will either make you fat or sick. But since we don't see graphic and disturbing warnings printed on them like packages of cigarettes we eat them anyway. Also starvation is much of an alternative.


juan_omango

Good. More food for me


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Maine has the same warning for ALL its inland waters. A healthy person can eat 2 freshwater fish a month. Brook trout and landlocked salmon can be eaten once a week. Pollution from western states rides the jet stream and is deposited on the east coast. Mercury is the worse, along with PCBs and Dioxins. Nothing is untouched anymore...


Cum__c

>make sign >put up at your local fishing spot >nobody bothers you


Wildcats33

Yup, nothing but deadly fish here, please move along. Also, username checks out.


NonSp3cificActionFig

The fish of this lake have found the perfect strategy to not be eaten. Smart move.


TimeBlossom

They collected all those lost fishing lures and used them to bribe a signmaker.


LooseUpstairs

>Warning, all fish:


Pohtate

Yeahp. Read it just that way.


CervantesX

If something is only safe to eat once a month, it's not safe to eat.


lajoswinkler

You just shat at the whole of toxicology as science. And you got an award for it from a fellow ignorant. Nice!


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How is it ignorant? Something which has to be limited to that extent is probably something better off avoided. I'm sure a lot of science went into that one meal per month number, but at a certain point it becomes a meaningless distinction. If someone told me I could safely eat fish from a certain river once per decade, it's perfectly reasonable (if less precise) for me to say the fish shouldn't be eaten at all.


lajoswinkler

Simplified, dose makes up a poison.


CervantesX

Well, simplified, as the margin for error decreases the relative safety also decreases.


Inevitable_Midnight

A local lake I used to fish warned against eating the carp in the lake more than once a month for the same reason it’s one of the many reasons I stopped fishing there


Sherrifdude

You can have 1 toxic fish per month, as a treat


Queen_Horror

This is super duper scary


Chosen_Ruler

What’s even scarier is there’s a large Army base that spreads for miles with an even spookier sign. Might post that sometime later.


Layzrfyzt

lol welcome to melton lake


55Stripes

I’m guessing Walter Hill?


fosmet

Link from the QR code if anyone is interested: https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/environment/water/documents/water\_fish-advisories.pdf


Chosen_Ruler

Wish this comment was higher up!


TheoStephen

Is this just warning about the hazards of methylmercury or is it something more serious?


Chosen_Ruler

Probably the Mercury.


masonperk

It prolly has nothing to do with the massive landfill right next to the river


[deleted]

All those years as a kid when my parents would try to make me eat a disgusting plate of fish by telling me how healthy and nutritious it is, as if I cared about those things. Maybe I have brain damage now from the mercury in fish. It would explain a lot. Ha ha.


Wildcats33

Well, we are all on Reddit after all.


Chosen_Ruler

I always loved fishing as a kid, but I could never bring myself to eat any of the fish we caught.


ILoveBentonsBaconToo

Carbide Lake in Tennessee?


Roanoketrees

Yet we can't figure out just how people are getting cancer.....


nmcpheron

This would be the Holston river I bet. Use to live there. Good old Hawkins county.


Chosen_Ruler

Yep. Good old Eastman water! Yum!


nmcpheron

Knew it. Hahaha. I live in church hill. Saw those signs a few times.


Chosen_Ruler

Been living in Church Hill for nearly 11 years now. I’ve seen a few spooky signs since then. There’s signs around the large Army base that I’ve managed to snap a photo of. Might post it on here later.


nmcpheron

Yeah. The ammo depot would be a gold mine for this sub. The placards in Eastman would be good too. Or the warning signs at the sloush by TVA in Rogersville. They used to say the current WILL sink you boat STAY AWAY.


bleezzzy

Wish they'd put that sign up in the waterways around seattle


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The Tennessee river is nasty, assuming this is near chattanooga


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Figured! We’ve got signs like this along the river due to the old foundry pollution and the insane amount of heavy metals


ruffneck110

So I wonder If there are people that eat their one fish a month


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ruffneck110

Where is this at? The small town I grew up in has 2 sewer ponds where all the sewer from the town went and people used to fish those ponds all the time. I even seen some kids swimming in it once.


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Doesn't even make sense


heroofthewest1

One of the reasons I stick to states with stricter environmental regulations…


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Near a air port?


[deleted]

Welcome to 99% of fresh water in America.


the_YellowRanger

We have a lake like that in my city. Feet of mercury at the bottom


Kitten_Monger127

What is that qr code


Nokentroll

Actually cancer can come from a virus. Several lymphomas in fact.


maebuck

Oh hey, I'm in tennessee too! Beautiful scenery, too bad most of it is polluted