In article , "Mike
Stevenson" wrote:

Fishes have faces...ask any 5 year old. I think that vegans BTW don't eat
ANY animal or animal based product. No milk, no cheese, no gelatin (if you
don't know you don't want to). I've also heard of so called micro-biotics
that wont eat the above but also retrict themselves to seaweeds and the
like. Unfortunately due to man's dumping activities its argueable whether
seafood is really all that safe to eat anymore. And recently a number of
articles detailing how most of the big fish populations are all but wiped
out. It doesn't look promising...

You've never looked an Irish Lord in the face! =:-O

The feds just did a survey on 600 pregnant Alaska Native women.
They took hair samples and tested for Hg. (mercury) All of the
women (who live in the bush and eat mostly fish) tested way below
EPA levels for Hg.

Our mercury levels in Alaskan wild fish is .65 ppm. The EPA safe food
level is 4 parts per million (ppm).

To start with: wild fish populations in Alaska are healthy. I don't know
where you are, but our salmon (5 kinds), halibut, crab (4 kinds), scallops,
clams (4 kinds), pollack, cod (3 kinds), oysters, mussles, and shrimp
populations are doing fine. Just because you guys fished out your fisheries,
we haven't. God knows that the canneries from Seattle tried, but Alaska
got statehood in 1959 and got control of the fisheries before they succeded.

The by-catch (unwanted fish) that factory trawlers off coastal Alaska
throw away every year could *feed the entire world* for one day. (Read
that sentence again and think about it. Then write to your congressman.)

Factory trawlers need to be run off our seas. Tyson (Chicken) owns loads
of those trawlers. They do mile-long trawls that clear-cut the ocean bottom.
It's like clear-cutting the forest. Nothing survives, but the shareholders
smile.

(A "trawl" is a weighted net that sinks to the ocean floor and catches
everything there. A trawl net creates a kill-zone on the ocean floor.)

I live in a commercial fishing town. Most of my friends and neighbors
are comemercial fishermen. I catch most of the fish I eat. What's your
connection with the sea, Mike? Do you read stuff in the newpaper and
believe it, or do you have a direct connection with the sea and your food?

Jan
Homer, Alaska


"Jan Flora" wrote in message
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In article , Pat Meadows
wrote:

On Sun, 03 Aug 2003 02:09:15 -0800, (Jan
Flora) wrote:



One of the ranchers in our cattlemans association is married to a
vegetarian. It's NBD. When we have to go to convention banquets,
he gets her prime rib and she gets his king crab legs : )

She's not a vegetarian then, she's someone who doesn't eat
meat, but does eat fish.

Vegetarian, by definition, means someone who doesn't eat red
meat, doesn't eat poultry, and doesn't eat seafood - in
short, a vegetarian doesn't eat any dead animals.

What's 'NBD'? I can't figure that out.

Pat

The veggies I've talked to say that there are lots of kinds. Vegans
won't eat eggs, they drink soy milk, and don't eat any flesh. Around
here, there are lots of folks who won't eat "anything with a face."
They'll eat seafood though. I say eat whatever you want and be happy.

NBD = no big deal.

Jan