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Radioactive fish

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  • ForeverIrish
    ForeverIrish Posts: 227 Member
    Ouch! You never know what you're eating these days. This is bluefin. I wonder if the hamachi I eat will make me glow in the dark.
  • Adsnwfld
    Adsnwfld Posts: 262 Member
    Tuna is perfectly safe, most of it is farm raised. and the amounts they are talking about are so under any standard of hazardous to humans that you are taking a bigger risk of radiation exposure living in a brick home or flying. Every American is exposed to around 300 mr of radiation annually.

    Just because they can detect it doesn't make it hazardous. and again, most tuna is farm raised and 100% radiation free
  • Silverkittycat
    Silverkittycat Posts: 1,997 Member
    Tuna is perfectly safe, most of it is farm raised. and the amounts they are talking about are so under any standard of hazardous to humans that you are taking a bigger risk of radiation exposure living in a brick home or flying. Every American is exposed to around 300 mr of radiation annually.

    Just because they can detect it doesn't make it hazardous. and again, most tuna is farm raised and 100% radiation free

    Thank you!
  • Justjoshin
    Justjoshin Posts: 999 Member
    I keep hearing this hype, and people pointing to fox news type warnings of "don't eat tuna"

    Any real studies will show that the level of radiation may be much greater than it was in the past, but is still well within a safe range for humans to eat.

    We are exposed to greater levels of radiation via many things you never even think about.
  • SueGremlin
    SueGremlin Posts: 1,066 Member

    most tuna is farm raised
    It is?
  • LorinaLynn
    LorinaLynn Posts: 13,247 Member
    I would like to become a tuna farmer. I think that's my calling.
  • skinnylove00
    skinnylove00 Posts: 662 Member
    i eat about 3 cans of tuna daily i will be the guinea pig and tell you guys if i die/start glowing anytime soon
  • zombilishious
    zombilishious Posts: 1,250 Member
    Just because they can detect it doesn't make it hazardous. and again, most tuna is farm raised and 100% radiation free

    I eat a ton of canned tuna because it's cheap and easy. Bluefin tuna is caught and sold fresh. Researchers expressed surprise to find these levels of radiation, and expect to find even higher levels in other migrating fish that spent more time around Japanese waters. I realize there's a lot of farm raised fish in the US, but not 100% of our fish is. These levels are 10 times the norm and higher levels are expected, so even though the fishing industry (who makes $$$ because I eat fish) says it's safe to eat, I think I'd rather not. Fukishima is yet another man-made disaster of long-range proportion.
  • SueGremlin
    SueGremlin Posts: 1,066 Member
    I would like to become a tuna farmer. I think that's my calling.
    Seriously.

    Have you ever seen a tuna swimming around? I mean, how can you not eat them? They are MADE OF MEAT. Delicious meat.
  • mfp_junkie
    mfp_junkie Posts: 359

    most tuna is farm raised
    It is?

    There are many bluefin farms around the world, known as tuna "ranching." Fish farmers capture bluefin juveniles in the wild and raise them to maturity before shipping them to market, rather than fishing for them in the open ocean.

    But what's different about Kinki University's program is that it's a closed farming system, which means that the bluefin tuna raised in their ocean tanks have never been in the wild.

    They're produced from hatched eggs, raised, and then fished for consumption.

    It's one of the few programs on the globe to successfully raise the delicate bluefin tuna.

    For three generations, Okada has helped successfully raise bluefin tuna for the world's gourmet restaurants.

    "This is the first pond worldwide made in 2002 that contains completely farm-raised tuna," Okada told CNN, standing above the giant tank off of the western shores of Japan.

    The tank is filled with 34 tuna, a group Okada feels especially close to.

    "They're seven years old now. They've been breeding eggs every year for three years now. Compared to the other fish farms, we were off to a slow start. But we've been doing this closed system for three generations now, and they've been a success. We don't have to use wild tuna anymore, because we can raise our own," he said.

    CNN joined Okada as we visited a dozen different tanks at the Kinki University site in Kushimoto, Japan. We stopped at a large tank filled with three-year-old tuna, where fishermen would be pulling out seven tuna on this day.

    Each of the tuna has been specifically ordered by a restaurant, some as far away as the United States.

    The fishing is easy. The fishermen toss a mackerel on a hook and pull out a bluefin in just minutes. The fish is beautiful; glistening blue and silver with a yellow fin on its spine. The fishermen zap the fish in the brain with an electric rod, stunning it. It only takes a few minutes to clean it and ice it.
  • Contrarian
    Contrarian Posts: 8,138 Member
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    Ocarina Posts: 1,550 Member
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  • SueGremlin
    SueGremlin Posts: 1,066 Member

    most tuna is farm raised
    It is?

    There are many bluefin farms around the world, known as tuna "ranching." Fish farmers capture bluefin juveniles in the wild and raise them to maturity before shipping them to market, rather than fishing for them in the open ocean.

    But what's different about Kinki University's program is that it's a closed farming system, which means that the bluefin tuna raised in their ocean tanks have never been in the wild.

    They're produced from hatched eggs, raised, and then fished for consumption.

    It's one of the few programs on the globe to successfully raise the delicate bluefin tuna.

    For three generations, Okada has helped successfully raise bluefin tuna for the world's gourmet restaurants.

    "This is the first pond worldwide made in 2002 that contains completely farm-raised tuna," Okada told CNN, standing above the giant tank off of the western shores of Japan.

    The tank is filled with 34 tuna, a group Okada feels especially close to.

    "They're seven years old now. They've been breeding eggs every year for three years now. Compared to the other fish farms, we were off to a slow start. But we've been doing this closed system for three generations now, and they've been a success. We don't have to use wild tuna anymore, because we can raise our own," he said.

    CNN joined Okada as we visited a dozen different tanks at the Kinki University site in Kushimoto, Japan. We stopped at a large tank filled with three-year-old tuna, where fishermen would be pulling out seven tuna on this day.

    Each of the tuna has been specifically ordered by a restaurant, some as far away as the United States.

    The fishing is easy. The fishermen toss a mackerel on a hook and pull out a bluefin in just minutes. The fish is beautiful; glistening blue and silver with a yellow fin on its spine. The fishermen zap the fish in the brain with an electric rod, stunning it. It only takes a few minutes to clean it and ice it.
    Thank you SO MUCH for this information. It's extremely important and I had no idea. I am a biologist and an environmentalist who also happens to absolutely lust for tuna on a constant basis. I restrict it though, out of guilt.

    I hope this becomes the norm for commercial tuna in the near future.
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