FISH

[Dr. Shane]

Perhaps the type of meat most commonly eaten by Adventists.

Saltwater or fresh?

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[Bravus]

Yep, I go for wild ocean fish when at all possible, and avoid farmed fish: not only more toxins but more diseases in the latter.

[aldona]

I eat fish once or twice a week. My favorites are tuna, salmon, herring and mackerel. I usually try to avoid farmed fish with the exception of Tasmanian smoked salmon.

(Homer Simpson voice on...)

Mmmmmmmmmmmmm....Smoked salmon...

(back to normal voice.)

Last time I looked, the Bible told me that I am permitted to eat fish that has fins and scales. If others prefer not to because of their individual health needs or because they do not like it, that's everyone's free choice.

But any attempt to try to tell me that eating fish is sinful or un-Biblical falls into the category of "ordering to abstain from certain foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and who know the truth." (1 Timothy 4:3.)

aldona

[bevin]

You want to eat things as similar to your own biology as possible, because they are not harmful. They tend not to have toxins in them because the toxins would attack the organism itself.

Animals tend to have parasites in them that would just as likely thrive in you. This is why you should freeze and cook the animals you eat. It pushes those parasites through regimes that they are not likely to survive.

You want to eat things as different to your own biology as possible, provided that they are not harmful. You want the parasites/diseases of the things you eat to be unlikely to survive in you.

Plants tend to have toxins in them to stop animals from eating them, or be very low in nutritional value because they are so different to us.

So - there is no good general rule. People have put a lot of experimentation and science into determining which parts of which organisms treated which ways can be relatively safely consumed.

The OT kosher rules are a very crude approximation to this analysis - there are lots of things that pass them that will kill you, and lots of things that don't pass them that are relatively harmless.

Fish - I eat all kinds - shark, salmon, flounder, trout. But I make sure it is cleaned and cooked and comes from a reasonably healthy environment!

I am much more concerned about the effects of car accidents, obesity, stress, under-exercise, etc. than I am about weird low-likelyhood low-impact effects from fish...

/Bevin

[Amelia]

I love tuna