So you’re telling me I’m going to die. January 24, 2008 Jill My last meal. Crap. But red wine is still good for me, right? Maybe that will off-set the mercury poisoning.
Am I the only one who thought the picture was of a woman’s lips with greens sticking out the sides? I expected something scathing about shots of wheat grass, and had prepared a comment about how inappropriate the picture was given the subject matter … but it turned out to be a boring piece of non-sexist, mercury-infused sushi. Bah.
1. I like yellowtail better anyway. 2. I don’t see how one or two pieces every now and then is going to kill you.
I’ve stopped taking the MSM “health news” seriously, especially after having three medical residents as roommates. From discussing such news items with them and perusing their copies of the NEJM while they were gone doing their residency rounds, most of the “health news” corresponded with what I’ve noticed for a long time about mainstream MSM coverage of computer/technology, matters related to Chinese/Japanese history, or anything else: a chronic tendency towards gross oversimplification. Not to offend the resident/aspiring journalists, but I’ve often wondered whether this tendency factored in how the term “journalism” is often used by many historians as a disdainful adjective to describe published work they perceive as having fallen far short of what they would consider to be proper academic scholarship.
Is it wrong that all these articles, accompanied by gorgeous photos of sushi, have just made me hungry for sushi?
Is it wrong that all these articles, accompanied by gorgeous photos of sushi, have just made me hungry for sushi? Dude. I’ve been craving sushi for days now. (All that anime watching makes me want sushi!) Looking at the picture just made me want it more. In fact, I spent most of this morning at work googling sushi bars near by!
Idiotic. My family and I will continue to eat sushi whenever we can and whenever we want. (SEK- that’s tuna, and damned yummy stuff at that.)
Mercury in fish is, like so many things, yet another gift from unregulated and underregulated industry. I like sushi as much as the next person, and I like canned tuna too. But I’ve been cutting down on my tuna intake pretty seriously lately. By only eating fatty tuna, which costs so very much more but is a mouthgasm, I not only eat better sushi, I eat less tuna. The real question is: how are we going to clean out all the mercury that has been dumped into the ocean? Its there, its not only hurting ocean life, its potentially hurting us, and something needs to be done. In the meantime, I eat farm raised fish by preference these days.
Mind you, if it turns out that there’s a huge health risk involved in eating unagi sushi, I’ll probably just wind up dead, cuz unagi is even more of a mouthgasm than fatty tuna. Even nasty grocery store sushi isn’t bad when its unagi.
sorry jill, but red wine ain’t that good for you either: http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/arh25-4/263-270.htm
you don’t drink red wine with fish. you drink white. everybody knows that. on the other hand it’s red wine that is really healthy for you unlike what morningstar says. Drink red wine with venison, beef – red meat or on its own.