No more tilapia?
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markrgeary1 wrote: »Did you ever think about what all fish do in the water? If you are afraid of tilapia why would you ever drink water?
Well I don't drink water that fish have been swimming in. Do you?
My local water comes from a filthy lake with all sorts of nastiness in it. However...the local water company filters and purifies it, so the whole valley doesn't get sick and die. I wouldn't drink directly from unfiltered water that animals, fish and probably people have been pooping in. Not wise to drink water straight from nature in most parts of the world these days (unless it's from an uncontaminated spring) without filtering it first. That's a good way to get sick (and possibly even die.)
Yup, and it's also not wise to eat any fish or meat that hasn't been cleaned and cooked to a safe temperature.2 -
livingleanlivingclean wrote: »There are also articles on how apples are bad and oatmeal is bad.. and I remember when milk was bad..then it wasn't..then steak was.. now certain fish has mercury and should be limited yet the healthiest longest living people in the world eat it without question. Do your own research. Articles are written by mostly uneducated monkeys. But yeah, tilapia does taste gross. Doesn't mean it's bad for you.. just means it's gross. Want to know how Germans use to make sauerkraut? You would be grossed out.. but it really isn't bad for you.
By fermentation? Like I, and plenty of other people still do? Or like the one people buy from the fridge not the shelf in the supermarket?
My dad grew up in Germany and he said they would layer a layer of straw, a layer of cow poo, a layer of straw, a layer of cabbage, a layer of straw, a layer of cow poo, a layer of straw,...it continues on that way.. in a large vat and let it sit to ferment. They process it now. But there are a lot of foods old timers ate that today we would gag on. Brains and eggs was a thing my dad grew up on. He also ate cows eyes and grasshoppers. He would go to the hen house and crack open an egg and drink it right there. Lovely generation, the 50's..
I call B.S. on that story. Somebody was trying to freak you out. LOL. Just because something tastes like crap doesn't mean it's made of crap. My great-grandma grew in up in Germany (born in the 1800's) and they fermented the cabbage using salt, just like civilized people do today. They did fertilize the cabbage fields with poop, though...Also, my grandma never ate eyeballs, bugs, raw eggs or brains either. But maybe that was just her personal preference.
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Tiny_Dancer_in_Pink wrote: »markrgeary1 wrote: »Did you ever think about what all fish do in the water? If you are afraid of tilapia why would you ever drink water?
Well I don't drink water that fish have been swimming in. Do you?
Lake Tahoe has fish swimming in it and is the best tasting drinking water, so yeah, I have.
I am not sure where your drinking water comes from but, Drinking water comes from one of two sources: ground water or surface water. Ground water originates from precipitation that falls in the form of rain or snow and seeps into the ground, filling the open spaces, or pore space, within layers of sand or gravel (formations) beneath the land surface. Under the ground there is a zone of saturation where the subsurface is completely saturated with water. Layers of sand and gravel in this saturated zone are called aquifers. An aquifer is a geologic formation containing water in quantities sufficient to yield water to a well. The well pumps water to the surface where the water company treats it to ensure that it is safe to drink. It is then pumped into a storage tank and upon demand by the customer, flows through distribution pipes into the home and ultimately to the faucet.
So, not only have you drank water that fish have been swimming in, you most likely drink water that humans and other animals have urinated in or crapped in too. It also has had a few hundred animals die in it also.
surface water include creeks, lakes and streams.
Many river provides the water for millions of people all around the world.
Not only animals and their waste. I remember factories dumping poison in there. No legal refuse place would accept the stuff so they pumped it away.1 -
All water on the planet has been peed out by something.6
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markrgeary1 wrote: »Did you ever think about what all fish do in the water? If you are afraid of tilapia why would you ever drink water?
Well I don't drink water that fish have been swimming in. Do you?
Unless you're drinking well water (and maybe not even then) something nasty was in your water somewhere upstream of you, and it was doing a lot more than swimming. And that's even if you're drinking tap or bottled water.
Circle of life and all that....2 -
It's actually pretty cool to think that the water I just drank was once inside a dinosaur, in all likelihood.5
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What about other milder fish?0
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markrgeary1 wrote: »Did you ever think about what all fish do in the water? If you are afraid of tilapia why would you ever drink water?
Well I don't drink water that fish have been swimming in. Do you?
Uhhhhhhhhhh....hahah1 -
I'm guessing tilapia is fine for you. I'm hoping we can continue to improve methods for farming fish. In the meantime, I eat farmed fish in moderation.1
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markrgeary1 wrote: »Did you ever think about what all fish do in the water? If you are afraid of tilapia why would you ever drink water?
Well I don't drink water that fish have been swimming in. Do you?
Where do you get your water from?
My water is treated and filtered well water from my own well.
Most community water is treated before distributed to the population.
Not exactly the same thing as drinking it directly from the polluted lake or river.2 -
lol, this thread made me rethink about my choice of lunch that i prepped for the whole week..1
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lol, this thread made me rethink about my choice of lunch that i prepped for the whole week..
Unfounded scaremongering about perfectly healthy foods never makes me rethink my food choices. Otherwise, I'd be cutting oatmeal, bagged vegetables and farmed fish out of my diet just based upon the three threads I can think of in the last day or so here. Keep reading garbage like that and soon enough there's nothing "healthy" left to eat.2 -
lol, this thread made me rethink about my choice of lunch that i prepped for the whole week..
Unfounded scaremongering about perfectly healthy foods never makes me rethink my food choices. Otherwise, I'd be cutting oatmeal, bagged vegetables and farmed fish out of my diet just based upon the three threads I can think of in the last day or so here. Keep reading garbage like that and soon enough there's nothing "healthy" left to eat.
You forgot apples.0 -
Alatariel75 wrote: »lol, this thread made me rethink about my choice of lunch that i prepped for the whole week..
Unfounded scaremongering about perfectly healthy foods never makes me rethink my food choices. Otherwise, I'd be cutting oatmeal, bagged vegetables and farmed fish out of my diet just based upon the three threads I can think of in the last day or so here. Keep reading garbage like that and soon enough there's nothing "healthy" left to eat.
You forgot apples.
And eggs too. Forgot about eggs.
Whelp......1 -
Alatariel75 wrote: »lol, this thread made me rethink about my choice of lunch that i prepped for the whole week..
Unfounded scaremongering about perfectly healthy foods never makes me rethink my food choices. Otherwise, I'd be cutting oatmeal, bagged vegetables and farmed fish out of my diet just based upon the three threads I can think of in the last day or so here. Keep reading garbage like that and soon enough there's nothing "healthy" left to eat.
You forgot apples.
And eggs too. Forgot about eggs.
Whelp......
Apparently everything that I eat regularly, is literally poison. Everything in this quote chain is something that I eat almost daily. O_O1 -
Gallowmere1984 wrote: »Alatariel75 wrote: »lol, this thread made me rethink about my choice of lunch that i prepped for the whole week..
Unfounded scaremongering about perfectly healthy foods never makes me rethink my food choices. Otherwise, I'd be cutting oatmeal, bagged vegetables and farmed fish out of my diet just based upon the three threads I can think of in the last day or so here. Keep reading garbage like that and soon enough there's nothing "healthy" left to eat.
You forgot apples.
And eggs too. Forgot about eggs.
Whelp......
Apparently everything that I eat regularly, is literally poison. Everything in this quote chain is something that I eat almost daily. O_O
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Yeah i do t eat it at all now when i Heard that its Not a real fish. Its government made.0
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I don't believe there is anything at all wrong with eating it. But we rarely buy it for the same reason I rarely buy any bland white fish. I'm not fond of bland foods. The only white fish we typically eat is orange roughy or catfish.0
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Just nonsense IMO.
Catfish is another farmed bottom fish and I don't hear similar criticism of it. Both are delicious when properly prepared and cooked.
This. If you're talking about a fish that eats excrement, catfish is king.
I couldn't care less what the fish eats. I LOVE me some catfish.1 -
Okay this is gross... by tilapia!0
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breannemarie1993 wrote: »Okay this is gross... by tilapia!
Hah, do you mean that you are a tilapia? (In which case, we'd completely understand why you'd find the discussion gross.)
Or maybe you meant "buy tilapia." In which case, why do you hate us?
But, I suspect you meant "bye, tilapia." In which case, the tilapia are now overjoyed.
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CHYNArockstarr wrote: »Yeah i do t eat it at all now when i Heard that its Not a real fish. Its government made.
what do you mean government made? like they just invented a fish in a lab? a government fish making lab?5 -
jessiferrrb wrote: »CHYNArockstarr wrote: »Yeah i do t eat it at all now when i Heard that its Not a real fish. Its government made.
what do you mean government made? like they just invented a fish in a lab? a government fish making lab?
Like Soylent Green?0 -
Costco's "Tilapia Loins" are grown by a company called Regal Springs. They have a nice web site. I particularly like this video of how they're grown.
I have no connection to the company. I'm curious because I'd like to eat tilapia myself. My wife is rather suspicious of it. I like the idea of farmed fish in general. Wild caught fish is very difficult to sustain and is expensive.0 -
Tiny_Dancer_in_Pink wrote: »markrgeary1 wrote: »Did you ever think about what all fish do in the water? If you are afraid of tilapia why would you ever drink water?
Well I don't drink water that fish have been swimming in. Do you?
Lake Tahoe has fish swimming in it and is the best tasting drinking water, so yeah, I have.
I am not sure where your drinking water comes from but, Drinking water comes from one of two sources: ground water or surface water. Ground water originates from precipitation that falls in the form of rain or snow and seeps into the ground, filling the open spaces, or pore space, within layers of sand or gravel (formations) beneath the land surface. Under the ground there is a zone of saturation where the subsurface is completely saturated with water. Layers of sand and gravel in this saturated zone are called aquifers. An aquifer is a geologic formation containing water in quantities sufficient to yield water to a well. The well pumps water to the surface where the water company treats it to ensure that it is safe to drink. It is then pumped into a storage tank and upon demand by the customer, flows through distribution pipes into the home and ultimately to the faucet.
So, not only have you drank water that fish have been swimming in, you most likely drink water that humans and other animals have urinated in or crapped in too. It also has had a few hundred animals die in it also.
surface water include creeks, lakes and streams.
I'm pretty sure the bolded is pretty important...I'm pretty sure "I don't drink water that fish have been swimming in" is in reference to drinking that water directly from source...good grief.2 -
markrgeary1 wrote: »Did you ever think about what all fish do in the water? If you are afraid of tilapia why would you ever drink water?
Well I don't drink water that fish have been swimming in. Do you?
My water comes from the Ohio river. Granted, it is filtered by Greater Cincinnati Water Works before it gets to my house but yeah, it's had fish swimming in it.
Also, all those bottles of spring water at the grocery store? Those springs have fish in them.
I've also gotten swigs of aquarium water accidentally when siphoning tanks. Didn't die.3 -
If you are eating tilapia because it is just a form of lean protein, fine. If you are eating tilapia for the benefits of upping your omega 3 to omega 6 ratio, you're not doing yourselves any favors. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/197572490
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My main hangup with it is that the tilapia and swai tends to be farmed from Vietnam/China, which don't exactly have the best environmental regulations, so I try not to eat it too often out of concern for potential chemical/heavy metals contamination. On the bright side, I recently read that tuna is showing lower levels of mercury contamination these days.1
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My main hangup with it is that the tilapia and swai tends to be farmed from Vietnam/China, which don't exactly have the best environmental regulations, so I try not to eat it too often out of concern for potential chemical/heavy metals contamination. On the bright side, I recently read that tuna is showing lower levels of mercury contamination these days.
Tilapia is farmed all over the world including in the US. Whole Foods now sells it. I think you'd have a hard time finding Chinese tilapia in the US these days. Most comes from Mexico, Honduras, and Indonesia.0
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