Like Seafood? You've Been Eating Your Own Garbage

lukin2006

Like Seafood? You've Been Eating Your Own Garbage

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/alex-miffl ... lp00000009

This really should be of no surprise??? right???

APlasticHeart

Who eats Sea Turtles and sea birds anyway? I live on the Northeast coast and I come from a family of fishermen. I due agree that plastics and garbage do not belong in the ocean. But I find the article is poorly written to get its point across. The two main examples they use as eating plastic trash is sea turtles and sea birds. Well, I dont know what they eat on the west coast and in other states and maybe I am completely wrong, but I don't think sea turtles and sea birds are in high demand as a food source. I've never once seen a seagull, cormorant, or a sea turtle on any menu in my area or any coastal cities I have visited along the east coast.

Additionally, my father and uncles have been fishing for over 40 years and never once have they seen plastic in the stomachs of any of the fish they have caught and gutted.

Sure plastic and garbage do not belong in the ocean. Neither does gas and oil, which every boat motor releases into the ocean in small amounts.

I think we have to worry more about the chemicals companies dump into our waters. Look at the Hudson and GE. There were and still might be high levels of PCBs due to chemical dumping, which has shown up in the fish that spawn there.

A lot of fish these days also is imported from overseas or farm raised. I think eating fish is still more safe than eating non-organic produce where you are guaranteed pesticides and also possibly eating something that is genetically altered.

Sure garbage in the ocean is not a good thing but its effects on the fish we eat I am not worried. They article doesn't give good examples or refer to any scientific evidence that is useful.