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	<title>Comments on: Eat seafood that&#8217;s healthy and sustainable</title>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 01:49:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Katie</title>
		<link>http://thegivinghands.org/conservation/eat-seafood-thats-healthy-and-sustainable#comment-1836</link>
		<dc:creator>Katie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:28:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It seems everyone these days knows the importance of being a conscientious consumer – especially when it comes to the food we eat.  As more and more studies are being published about the high levels of mercury in certain types of seafood and the potential health risks associated with it, people are scrambling to find out the truth about mercury.  The information is out there; the &lt;a href="http://www.oceana.org/north-america/what-we-do/stop-seafood-contamination/the-problem/food-and-drug-administration-mercury-advice/" rel="nofollow"&gt;FDA&lt;/a&gt; has published recommendations about what kinds of fish to avoid. The problem is that the FDA information isn’t always accessible when you’re grocery shopping, the time when you most need it.  

A simple solution would be for grocery stores to post the FDA advice right at their seafood counters.  &lt;a href="http://www.oceana.org/mercury" rel="nofollow"&gt;Oceana,&lt;/a&gt; a non-profit group that works for marine conservation, is running a campaign to stop seafood contamination and convince grocers to display the government’s advice about mercury.  Kroger, Safeway, Trader Joe’s and Whole Foods, among others, already display the advice and have made it onto Oceana’s &lt;a href="http://oceana.org/index.php?id=1530" rel="nofollow"&gt;Green List.&lt;/a&gt;  Check out local green list grocers &lt;a href="http://www.oceana.org/gl" rel="nofollow"&gt;in your area&lt;/a&gt; and support their effort to keep customers informed about safe seafood!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It seems everyone these days knows the importance of being a conscientious consumer – especially when it comes to the food we eat.  As more and more studies are being published about the high levels of mercury in certain types of seafood and the potential health risks associated with it, people are scrambling to find out the truth about mercury.  The information is out there; the <a href="http://www.oceana.org/north-america/what-we-do/stop-seafood-contamination/the-problem/food-and-drug-administration-mercury-advice/" rel="nofollow">FDA</a> has published recommendations about what kinds of fish to avoid. The problem is that the FDA information isn’t always accessible when you’re grocery shopping, the time when you most need it.  </p>
<p>A simple solution would be for grocery stores to post the FDA advice right at their seafood counters.  <a href="http://www.oceana.org/mercury" rel="nofollow">Oceana,</a> a non-profit group that works for marine conservation, is running a campaign to stop seafood contamination and convince grocers to display the government’s advice about mercury.  Kroger, Safeway, Trader Joe’s and Whole Foods, among others, already display the advice and have made it onto Oceana’s <a href="http://oceana.org/index.php?id=1530" rel="nofollow">Green List.</a>  Check out local green list grocers <a href="http://www.oceana.org/gl" rel="nofollow">in your area</a> and support their effort to keep customers informed about safe seafood!</p>
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		<title>By: pelf</title>
		<link>http://thegivinghands.org/conservation/eat-seafood-thats-healthy-and-sustainable#comment-1760</link>
		<dc:creator>pelf</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:02:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Gotcha, Steve! That's why in our turtle research, we do NOT sacrifice the turtles, NOT even if it was for the sake of knowledge!

For example, we'd rather not know the gender of the turtle hatchling (baby) because to do so, we would have to cut it open :( But of course, technology is so advanced that we can now use &lt;a href="http://chenpn.wordpress.com/2006/01/07/sex-em/" rel="nofollow"&gt;laparascopy&lt;/a&gt; to determine the gender of the turtles :D</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Gotcha, Steve! That&#8217;s why in our turtle research, we do NOT sacrifice the turtles, NOT even if it was for the sake of knowledge!</p>
<p>For example, we&#8217;d rather not know the gender of the turtle hatchling (baby) because to do so, we would have to cut it open :( But of course, technology is so advanced that we can now use <a href="http://chenpn.wordpress.com/2006/01/07/sex-em/">laparascopy</a> to determine the gender of the turtles :D</p>
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		<title>By: Steve</title>
		<link>http://thegivinghands.org/conservation/eat-seafood-thats-healthy-and-sustainable#comment-1759</link>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:58:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I would say we adopt changes depending on where we are. Certainly, you don't expect people from central Africa to adapt things which are suitable for people who are living at Northpole for example.There are really a lot of substitute around, but most of the time, we don't realise it. Be it grains, chicken or whatsoever, if we tried to learn more about what we consume daily, certainly it would helps. The point which I emphasize on this was, try to reduce/avoid eating this exotic food as much as we could. Certainly we could not stop everyone from eating it, but if we can adopt a mentality of trying to change for a better world, it won't cost us anything. No doubt that some of us are accustomed with some food, which is eaten nearly daily such as fish, but you can avoid buying/eating the "exotic" one as they are also important to the ecosystem itself. Just look for example, recently hot topic of Japan re-started the Whale Hunting in so called for "research". Does it worth to kill such wildlife just for a term "research" and food? Why aimed at whale, and not tuna or other fishes?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I would say we adopt changes depending on where we are. Certainly, you don&#8217;t expect people from central Africa to adapt things which are suitable for people who are living at Northpole for example.There are really a lot of substitute around, but most of the time, we don&#8217;t realise it. Be it grains, chicken or whatsoever, if we tried to learn more about what we consume daily, certainly it would helps. The point which I emphasize on this was, try to reduce/avoid eating this exotic food as much as we could. Certainly we could not stop everyone from eating it, but if we can adopt a mentality of trying to change for a better world, it won&#8217;t cost us anything. No doubt that some of us are accustomed with some food, which is eaten nearly daily such as fish, but you can avoid buying/eating the &#8220;exotic&#8221; one as they are also important to the ecosystem itself. Just look for example, recently hot topic of Japan re-started the Whale Hunting in so called for &#8220;research&#8221;. Does it worth to kill such wildlife just for a term &#8220;research&#8221; and food? Why aimed at whale, and not tuna or other fishes?</p>
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		<title>By: pelf</title>
		<link>http://thegivinghands.org/conservation/eat-seafood-thats-healthy-and-sustainable#comment-1758</link>
		<dc:creator>pelf</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:55:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Ji Yan, I could understand why all of us agree that we should not be eating shark's fin. Because sharks are being killed unnecessary, and their populations are being decimated by such killings. Plus, sharks take a long time to mature and to be able to reproduce.

But chicken? I understand where you're coming from when you mentioned the amount of water that is needed to produce one tonne of grain and so on, but do we have a choice between eating "animals that are fast declining" and "animals that aren't environmentally friendly"?

If I were to choose, I'd choose the later option. Because human kind could always research and improve on the ways to more efficiently produce a tonne of grain. But shark populations would continue to dwindle and may never return.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Ji Yan, I could understand why all of us agree that we should not be eating shark&#8217;s fin. Because sharks are being killed unnecessary, and their populations are being decimated by such killings. Plus, sharks take a long time to mature and to be able to reproduce.</p>
<p>But chicken? I understand where you&#8217;re coming from when you mentioned the amount of water that is needed to produce one tonne of grain and so on, but do we have a choice between eating &#8220;animals that are fast declining&#8221; and &#8220;animals that aren&#8217;t environmentally friendly&#8221;?</p>
<p>If I were to choose, I&#8217;d choose the later option. Because human kind could always research and improve on the ways to more efficiently produce a tonne of grain. But shark populations would continue to dwindle and may never return.</p>
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		<title>By: pelf</title>
		<link>http://thegivinghands.org/conservation/eat-seafood-thats-healthy-and-sustainable#comment-1757</link>
		<dc:creator>pelf</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:46:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Steve, you are most welcome. And, of course you may publish this post on your blog as well. Like I mentioned, some things are worth the bandwidth repeating :D</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Steve, you are most welcome. And, of course you may publish this post on your blog as well. Like I mentioned, some things are worth the bandwidth repeating :D</p>
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