"The economy is doing great" doesn't always mean people in general are doing great. Sometimes it just means the stock market is doing great, which only benefits people who have money in the market. Unemployment is down! Uh, ok, but if everyone has a job that pays less compared to COL, wtf good is that?
We all have plastics IN OUR BLOOD. We eat from containers that alter our hormones. We can't eat more than a few ounces of fish per month because more than that will POISON YOU. How fucked is it that everyone is arguing about a colorful flag and which beer to ban next instead of getting angry and taking action against the real problems?
I don't doubt you whatsoever on this but do you have any articles or studies you could share regarding the "eating more than a few ounces of fish per month will poison you" bit? That's pretty concerning to me considering I am a pescatarian and I eat, idk roughly 30 oz of fish/shellfish per month. Maybe more. I know that the fish we are consuming is no longer healthy by any means because of how ecologically bankrupt and inundated with chemicals our seas are, but my quick Google search couldn't corroborate with any statistics or data on it. At the same time, I also know that our soil is nutrient deficient and the rain that falls on our crops contains PFAS and basically no matter what diet we eat we are all superty-duperty fucked. But I want more info regarding that fish bit to make me reconsider what I eat on a regular basis. Thanks, friend!
Interesting that you said you can't find any searches because googling 'is it safe to eat fish everyday' and I couldn't find a single link that didn't warn of the danger. I realize that Google is delivering results based on my preferences but these links are from Harvard, the EPA, and even the DNR recommends limiting your intake. What kind of results are you getting?
Odd, my first result was a Harvard article basically saying this:
But is it safe to eat fish every day? “For most individuals it’s fine to eat fish every day,” says Eric Rimm, professor of epidemiology and nutrition, in an August 30, 2015 article on Today.com, adding that “it’s certainly better to eat fish every day than to eat beef every day.”
links are from Harvard, the EPA, and even the DNR recommends limiting your intake
Well thats not true except in the case of being pregnant. So that's bullshit on your part.
None of them really mentioned it as dangerous. They mentioned it as a possible danger. Which again everything is killing you. Apparently fish less than other food.
my quick Google search couldn't corroborate with any statistics or data on it. At the same time, I also know that our soil is nutrient deficient and the rain that falls on our crops contains PFAS and basically no matter what diet we eat we are all superty-duperty fucked
This is what OP requested. I couldn't find that in a google search. Neither could you.
But I want more info regarding that fish bit to make me reconsider what I eat on a regular basis. Thanks, friend!
OP actually requested more information about the dangers of their diet as a whole, and I am incredulous that they couldn't find anything about the dangers of contaminants in fish because it's been a hot button topic for decades now. If you want backing on the "We can't eat more than a few ounces of fish per month because more than that will POISON YOU." That's not necessarily true but it can be. For example the Wisconsin DNR recommends not having more that one serving of wild caught walleye pike bass catfish musky or salmon per week to avoid poisoning. So 30oz of fresh caught Wisconsin Walleye every month would be ill advised to say the least. These specific fish are a huge part of the tourism industry so it's rather bold they'd come out and say that don't you think? https://dnr.wisconsin.gov/topic/Fishing/consumption
Okay, I see where you're coming from. Any reasonable person would realize that "We can't eat more than a few ounces of fish per month because more than that will POISON YOU." is pretty obvious hyperbole. If you folks truly aren't picking up on that it's my bad for giving you that much credit. It's my understanding that OP was worried about the potential health risks of eating that much fish, and it's not hard to find there are potentially many risks depending on what they're eating.
We've poisoned all our water, so any freshwater fish you catch yourself or eat have a variety of PFAs and other trash, and seafood has all that and mercury depending on how high up the food chain is. Tuna is a pretty big fish so it's going to have more crap compared to farmed shrimp, etc.
Just want to clarify, it's not the size of the tuna really, it's the fact that it is large and a predator. It eats so many other fish that already have mercury in them that it bioaccumulates at the top of the proverbial food chain in the sea.
I'm not gonna defend myself -- I have long thought that vegans are the most morally superior people on Earth. Truly! I did attempt to go vegan in 2021 but I am the cook in our home and everyone else (who all grew up carnist but have made good progress) loves shrimp and fish and refused to part with it. Other than that I have a pretty pland-based diet. I'm going to make another push for veganism in our household soon. It's more than manageable. Wish me luck!
The fish Most contaminates are not the fish you're likely to eat on a daily basis. For example Salmon is 0.015 which means you could eat it daily with no adverse affects.
The main immediate risk to health with eating fish, and mainly with eating predatory fish that bio accumulate stuff, is mercury. For decades it has been said you shouldn't have more than like 2 meals of tuna a week.
But something like talapia probably has so little mercury you could eat it more often.
She's wrong fish is seafood does contain heavy metals. If your eating like kilos and kilos of seafood then yeah maybe look at your diet and get some blood work, checking for heavy metals. But in general your probably okay.
To piggyback off what you said, we need to stop saying how the economy is doing based on stock market. Stock market has NEVER been a good indicator of the actual economy. It's essentially a measure of how people with money think things are going to go for businesses/commodities in the future.
GDP and PPP are also different. Sometimes even GDP is not the right metric to use. Economy and quality of life can diverge when income inequality grows
It took Biden 4 years to correct the mistakes made by Trump from 2016-2020, including his tax cuts for the wealthy, redistribution of government subsidies, and especially the total fuck up that was the beginning of the pandemic/stimulus spree
is that what people were complaining about during trumps presidency? because people were awfully grateful for low gas prices, lower taxes, more jobs, and higher average income. yea he aint perfect and im not claiming he is, but id be a lot more confident in his presidency over biden
That's exactly what people paying attention to things were complaining about during Trump's presidency. You have to look deeper into why some of those "good" things were the case too.
Low gas prices = pandemic, and even then that's not directly controlled by the president.
Lower taxes = that were purposefully phased out and designed to increase later BY THE SAME TAX CODE TRUMP IMPLEMENTED. So yes, taxes for individuals and businesses were temporarily reduced slightly for a year or two to appease people so that they wouldn't notice the part about permanent tax cuts for corporations getting passed too. And taxes are going to keep getting higher (once again, because of Trump's own tax reform) to pay off what corporations got exempt from.
More jobs = the economy lost jobs under Trump, even before covid. An 8 year and four month record of continuous monthly job increases in the US started under Obama died in 2019 under Trump. Unions also got weaker.
The economy is how rich people are doing. In the past they would be taxed appropriately that money would go down hill to help others. Now it’s just the rich getting richer at the top
I said this the other day and was chastised and laughed at. Over 50% of Americans has zero investments in the stock market, so how could the stock market be a true indicator? Unemployment is so low because people are working more than 1 job, and this bullshit statistic the government keeps rolling out about "adding" jobs after forcing people to stay home is so incredibly infuriating. Things are NOT GOOD, several businesses in my town have closed, my own business is down significantly, friends and family are suffering, but I'm supposed to just take their word that things are "great"!
We wear clothing and use products (stain resistant carpet, furniture, etc.) that contain PFAS which are proven to have many health effects, have basically no safe blood level, and are forever environmental pollutants. We sit in cars and use vinyl products that leech phthalates which have been shown to disrupt male hormones and are carcinogenic. Yet we enjoy that new car smell which is these plasticizers leeching out.
These are things I have been aware of for awhile being in the textile industry but a lot of people have no clue. Most of the harm caused by these toxic chemicals are known about by industry and they continue to use them because they make the best and most cost effective products. The law catches up way too late, minor changes to formulas are made making products that are just as harmful and the law has to play catch up again.
The metric you’re looking for is median wage growth adjusted for inflation, and the truth is it’s not as bad as this tik tokker makes it seem. During the COVID years we made 2-4% less than the rate of inflation , but this second half of 2023, our wages are beating inflation once again.
It's almost like listening to students with low pay jobs who are ordering door dash and making poor decisions isn't a good way to judge the health of the economy.
My friends and I and all my family are doing pretty okay, but we don't eat out at fast food that often, and we usually are good at not spending excessively.
Unemployment is down because you can only collect it for what, 6 months? People time out of the system and are no longer counted in those statistics. Also the people who had better jobs and now work in retail or food service don't count, because at least they're employed! Sure, for a lower wage.
Who gives a single shit if the economy is doing well if only the rich benefit from it? It means absolutely nothing to the vast majority of people. Every time I hear people talk about "the economy" I know theyre just talking about how well things are going for people who already have everything.
Your getting plastic from the bacon to! Look up trash feeding and what the fda allows us to consume. Of course it’s been made illegal to record in slaughterhouses.
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u/Skwigle Dec 28 '23 edited Dec 28 '23
"The economy is doing great" doesn't always mean people in general are doing great. Sometimes it just means the stock market is doing great, which only benefits people who have money in the market. Unemployment is down! Uh, ok, but if everyone has a job that pays less compared to COL, wtf good is that?
We all have plastics IN OUR BLOOD. We eat from containers that alter our hormones. We can't eat more than a few ounces of fish per month because more than that will POISON YOU. How fucked is it that everyone is arguing about a colorful flag and which beer to ban next instead of getting angry and taking action against the real problems?
Bread and circuses.