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The health benefits of eating fish.

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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I agree locally sourced fresh out of the sea or the ground is better. Unfortunately, I live in London and I need to eat.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    You can still check labels for origins @B3.  Plenty of fresh food grown within the M25 if you know where to look.  There are restaurants that manage it so I suggest you see if there are farmers' markets and other sources on Google.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    @B3 there are other delivery services like Henderson. We have a mobile fish guy in north London that brings in fresh fish from the coasts. I'll send you Craig's details. He might bring to south London.


  • PlantmindedPlantminded Posts: 3,580
    Thank you @Dovefromabove.  That's another good way of keeping in touch with nature!
    Wirral. Sandy, free draining soil.


  • barry islandbarry island Posts: 1,847
    All this talk about fish being full of plastic has put me right off of eating them but as plastic is well known to float do you think that bottom dwelling species should be free of plastic in their food?
  • Bee witchedBee witched Posts: 1,295
    I've read that plastic ingestion by fish might not be the only problem.
    Traces of heavy metals have also been found, and farmed fish can be treated with antibiotics.

    All of this pollution it totally down to us .... we can and must do better.

    Bee x
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    Gardener and beekeeper in beautiful Scottish Borders  

    A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Traces of heavy metals,  that’s why we banned tuna some years ago,  it’s a bottom feeder, scoops up the rubbish.  Still can’t eat that. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    barry island said:
    ... as plastic is well known to float do you think that bottom dwelling species should be free of plastic in their food?
    Don't see why Boris and his cronies shouldn't eat plastic like the rest of us ... 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    barry island said:
    All this talk about fish being full of plastic has put me right off of eating them but as plastic is well known to float do you think that bottom dwelling species should be free of plastic in their food?

    Depends on the type of plastic - LDPE, HDPE & PP (eg food containers, bags) are less dense than water so do float, but PVC, PET and solid polystyrene are denser than water, so sink.
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Microplastics are everywhere - even deep sea trenches are full of it.


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