When the guberment issues a mercury level warning with a max weekly consumption level...
Do you eat only the recommended max or not at all? Just curious what the masses say.
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When the guberment issues a mercury level warning with a max weekly consumption level...
Do you eat only the recommended max or not at all? Just curious what the masses say.
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Personally, I don't pay much attention to them. As a youth I played with mercury, and up until my mid-life years I closed pinch-on sinkers with my teeth. I'm a 76yo man & still eating Catfish on occasion, from lakes with those consumption advisories. But, the main reason I don't worry so much about the advisories is that I don't consume enough of the fish on the advisory list to be concerned.
If I had the choice I’d just fish another lake with no warning :twocents
I do watch it but it hasn’t really been a issue because it doesn’t apply to panfish or I don’t eat enough bass or catfish to make a difference
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I advisory that I refer to is specifically for crappie and bassQuote:
Originally Posted by Lund
Ahh gotcha. The areas I fish don’t have any for crappie. There was I think one for bass but never caught enough to make a difference lolQuote:
Originally Posted by silverside
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I posted this before, my brother & I participated in the Harvard Study done in the New Orleans area concerning the accumulation of mercury in the body from eating fish from the local waters there. We had to cut a lock of hair and send it in to the program. At the time my brother's diet was fish out of local waters 2-3 days a week for a very long time where my diet was sushi once to twice a week. My brother barely had any mercury where I was loaded with it. I think it had to be the sushi fish. I skin everything except the Goggle-eye for the Mock Eel Tempura sushi rolls I make.
Never even pay attention to what the government says to eat, have you seen the stuff they allow in our food? :dono
Now I have cut way back on my thermometer consumption! :Rofl
Come on guys? No one???? Fish are Nasty, stop eating them immediately!Quote:
Originally Posted by keeferfish
They allow rat crap, aphids, mold, rot, rodent hairs, insect heads and we haven't even scratched the surface on chemicals allowed, Yellow number four was my favorite until yellow until number five came out, much more tasty!
I mean arsenic is pretty good if grilled correctly!
10 Gross Things the FDA Allows in Your Food - Reviewed
List of Select Chemicals in the Food Supply Under FDA Review | FDA
Guidelines for Eating Fish that Contain Mercury | US EPA
Smaller fish have less time to gain toxins
You never want to see sausage made then, unless you are a Wurstmeister then it's cool too.
according to a recent survey and this is not a joke , every hot dog and or sausage you consume shortens your life by thirty minutes .....:yikesQuote:
Originally Posted by Rojo
we do not allow fish at our house that come from any waters deemed to be under any sort of consumption advisory and it goes further than that as well .
If the fish are not from lakes way far away from the metropolitan areas and we are sure about the run off area into those lakes , only then can I bring them home for us to consume them .
my wife is really freaked out about the local fish and what might be in them .
according to the fisheries folks locally , some of the worst fish are in the rivers due to the street run off and the lower amount of waters in the river to dilute said run off to a ppm that is acceptable ....
but it is one of those things , so many folks are clueless about what is actually in the water as well . mercury might or might not be the one to worry about .....and water testing is done looking for certain known dangerous contaminants , it is highly unlikely tire shine and lawn chemicals and the etc etc etc coming from populated areas are actually in the test range ....
just saying
I would have to take up Golf, all our waters has something. You know New Orleans was the Cancer capitol for years, I don't know if it still is.
Does she eat potato chips? :donoQuote:
Originally Posted by Ketchn
about never , she is rather cautious about food stuffsQuote:
Originally Posted by keeferfish
Theres a lot of food i would eat before a fish from a warned body of water. I enjoy fish from clean waters, but why even take the chance with heavy metals and contaminates that never leave your body?? Over a crappie or bream fillet youll enjoy for 5 minutes.
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I'd wait until after next January. Those regulations and advisories will probably disappear.
That's the truth. As a young kid, we toured a meat packing plant on a school field trip. Major supplier we all know. Saw how everything was made. Unbelievable. Hot dogs, sausage, bologna, etc. Nasty as all get out - to this day I'll always renumber that and won't touch it. You folks have no idea. Grind my own sausage.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ketchn
I have an idea for sure , a one time companion worked at a chicken processing plant , everything that hit the sloped floor went into a central drain and down stairs to the “ processing” area for anything that had “chicken” in it …..
Dad always said all the etc etc in cans was just the stuff that falls on the floor when they butcher and pack em up …seems once again dad was right :Rofl
I love processed meats. Got to have a strong stomach if you watch it being made. We don't eat a log of meat like a lot of households but the seafood gets hammered.
most people that are worried about the toxins in fish have not really looked into what is already in the food chain , seafood from overseas quite often has chemicals in them that are banned in the US , the same goes for bananas that are not "organic" , they still use ddt down in them jungles .
the list goes on and on and to be very sure of this , you are more likely to kill yourself eating at a fast food place regularly ,than consuming fish from local waters .
sides all that , my water bill actually says don't drink it ......not kidding
our planet is full of pollutants and in most cases the food we consume is full of things that are known to be not for consumption ,its like them folks that raise beef and the usda saying the growth hormones they put in the beef are ok , and then finding out our beef is banned in many countries as an import .....
the studies I saw done on that are scary, so the next time your worried about a fish from whatever lake , keep in mind this about that .....your honey bun this morning was very probably way worse for you than a local fish :Rofl
I don’t have much choice around here. I just catch and release. My little creek has PFOS among other things, and the lower Delaware had been shot for years. That said. The fishing is still good.Quote:
Originally Posted by SuperDave336
Bob
the fisheries folks told me never mind how pretty and healthy they look in one spot back when , said the fish were so full of so many dangerous chemicals it was unimaginable , he went on to say you couldn't EVEN pay him to eat one ....Quote:
Originally Posted by BobC
Sk and I were really ripping some BIG beautiful Slabs and he asked me what exactly is wrong with these here fish when I told him they were not edible and I said not a real clue why they are considered so unhealthy , but I will call my buddy at the fisheries dept and find out ......
got me a long serious explanation and warning about the looks of the fish compared to what was in them ....:popcorn
Randy, my dad and I have been making our own sausage for years! We know EXACTLY what is in ours!Quote:
Originally Posted by Tracker123
We used to have an Oscar Mayer plant here, only thing not used from a hog are the tumors, absesses, and spoiled/bile covered parts. Everything else gets butcher cut for sale, made into sausage/hotdogs, redered for oils/fats, or sold for dog food.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tracker123
Any "meat" left from butchering goes into your hotdogs, and theres a reason meat is in quotations.
I simply make my own sausages. I invested in a nice grinder and stuffer, and use deer and whole cuts of pork. I know what is in mine, real meat.
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A few years ago I got blessed with some food allergies. I am now allergic to nitrites(all cured/processed meats) and MSG. No chinese foof. No Popeye's chicken. It sucks but I eat healthier than most.
I worked in further processing chicken plant one summer. All we did was batter and cook tenders and breast. If anything hit the floor it went to the rendering plant(dog food). It was a clean place.
Something on the mercury, I read up on the last yr is that Centerhill Lake here in TN now has mercury warnings on it... It is one of the most pristine lakes around. There is a coal burning plant for TVA to the west about 50miles on Old Hickory lake. When coal is burnt one of the by products in the smoke is mercury. As it gets blown to the east it falls out. This is most likely were it came from unless someone knows better. There is no industry around this lake.
I eat fish white catfish from the TN river, crappie when available. Rojo is my hero. Making his own sushi. I make ceviche sometimes from crappie...
One of the small lakes about 5 miles from my parent's place has a great population of crappie, catfish, and bass, but they're inedible because of PCB contamination. There was a company in Raleigh called Ward Transformers that built and remanufactured transformers in the area. Instead of paying to properly dispose of the PCB laced oil, they'd spray it out alongside country roadsides, figuring nobody would notice. There's no telling how many tons of soil had to be dug up and put in a sealed landfill at taxpayer expense. One of the places they dumped became a recreational park lake. There are signs around the lake not to consume the fish there, but some people still eat them. I'm not sure if the Wards all died in prison or if any of them are still alive. I hope they rot in Hades.
Jim
PCB is the one that often shows up in our local waters , seems just about EVERY power plant leached it off into the lakes they were or still are on . some other things of concern as well on the 2 lakes beside the naval air stations too . I have heard mercury as well , but never saw anything that verified what some of those internet types posted up about it in our area ..... :donoQuote:
Originally Posted by Yak Fish
Smart woman, and you have a good plan as to what you and the family will eat.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ketchn
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