Post Sushi
We may well be the last generation to eat wild sushi. A report from the UN Environmental Programme released in May 2010 states that 30 percent of fish stocks have “collapsed,” and it warns that unless we alter our fishing practices, in 40 years we’ll be effectively out of edible fish. Paul Greenberg, author of Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food, writes that globally we catch and consume 170 billion pounds of wild fish per year, an amount “equivalent in weight to the entire human population of China.” Greenberg points out that we would need four or five oceans to meet the appetites of the world’s seven billion humans.
If a human controlled demolition of wild fish stocks seems shocking, it would seem even more so to previous generations. Wild fish, to quote Greenberg, seemed “a crop, harvested from the sea, that magically grew itself back every year. A crop that never required planting.” For our ancestors, the very idea of us humans fishing the ocean to the point of collapse would seem preposterous. The oceans took months, even years, to sail across. The oceans were the very definition of vastness. But when a single bluefin tuna can fetch over $10,000, market forces become a deadly current that our oceans’ most delectable creatures must struggle against. Can we reverse that current somehow? Or is it too late now?
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Anonymous
Like hard science?
Read The China Study by T. Colin Campbell or Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease by Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., MD.
Anonymous
Like hard science?
Read The China Study by T. Colin Campbell or Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease by Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., MD.
Anonymous
Thanks, i will. I picked up the china study today on joe's recommendation. Ill look up the other one.
Anonymous
Thanks, i will. I picked up the china study today on joe's recommendation. Ill look up the other one.
Anonymouse
The China study is retarded. It pushes correlation as causation with blind loyalty. Its a TERRIBLE book and even worse analysis of studies. Furthermore, it takes one animal protein and lumps them all in one category that is held together by weak correlation.
It depresses me that people in america are so bad at math, science and reading that they would not see the obvious issues with that book... I am very pro-veg.
Anonymouse
The China study is retarded. It pushes correlation as causation with blind loyalty. Its a TERRIBLE book and even worse analysis of studies. Furthermore, it takes one animal protein and lumps them all in one category that is held together by weak correlation.
It depresses me that people in america are so bad at math, science and reading that they would not see the obvious issues with that book... I am very pro-veg.
Anonymous
The Vegetarian Myth? That book is a joke!
The author, Lierre Keith suffers from numerous chronic health problems. Unable to secure a diagnosis for most of them, she decided that the vegan diet she had followed for twenty years was to blame. But she wasn't content to add a few animal products back to her diet. Instead, she set out to prove that healthy diets require copious amounts of animal foods and that small-scale animal farming is the answer to sustainability. To prove it, she has cobbled together information from websites (yes, she actually cites Wikipedia!) and a few popular pseudoscientific books.
I read the section on nutrition first. Since it's my area of expertise, I figured it would give me some idea of the quality of her research and analysis. But quality isn't at issue here because there is no research or analysis. Keith doesn't bother with primary sources; she depends almost exclusively on the opinions of her favorite popular authors, which she presents as proof of her theories. For example, when she writes about evolution as it affects dietary needs, and suggests that "the archeological evidence is incontrovertible," she is actually referencing the book "Protein Power," written by two physicians who have no expertise in evolution or anthropology. It's a neat trick, of course, because we have no idea where the "Protein Power" authors got their information. By burying all of the actual studies this way, she makes it laborious for readers to check her facts.
No critical thinking to be found here.
Anonymous
The Vegetarian Myth? That book is a joke!
The author, Lierre Keith suffers from numerous chronic health problems. Unable to secure a diagnosis for most of them, she decided that the vegan diet she had followed for twenty years was to blame. But she wasn't content to add a few animal products back to her diet. Instead, she set out to prove that healthy diets require copious amounts of animal foods and that small-scale animal farming is the answer to sustainability. To prove it, she has cobbled together information from websites (yes, she actually cites Wikipedia!) and a few popular pseudoscientific books.
I read the section on nutrition first. Since it's my area of expertise, I figured it would give me some idea of the quality of her research and analysis. But quality isn't at issue here because there is no research or analysis. Keith doesn't bother with primary sources; she depends almost exclusively on the opinions of her favorite popular authors, which she presents as proof of her theories. For example, when she writes about evolution as it affects dietary needs, and suggests that "the archeological evidence is incontrovertible," she is actually referencing the book "Protein Power," written by two physicians who have no expertise in evolution or anthropology. It's a neat trick, of course, because we have no idea where the "Protein Power" authors got their information. By burying all of the actual studies this way, she makes it laborious for readers to check her facts.
No critical thinking to be found here.
Anonymous
Yeah ive heard all that before about the vegetarian myth. And im with you. But that was precisely my point.
Anonymous
Yeah ive heard all that before about the vegetarian myth. And im with you. But that was precisely my point.
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