And also cetaceans, sea-birds and turtles.
I was watching a documentary, that proposed Humans do as well, since we end up consuming some of the fish that eat that stuff.
That's exactly what article is talking about.
Fish are eating lots of plastic
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> Not all the countries are pure meat eaters... lmao... fish is meat.
well, I should have said "animal flesh". In my mother tongue (Spanish) fish (pescado) is different than meat (carne).
Sounds like a bug in Spanish (chill, I'm Spanish). However, fish is also animal flesh so that wouldn't have made the statement any better. Fish are animals. Fish muscles are meat in the same way any other meat is meat.
Downvoted for facts, gotta love it.
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You know that fish is a type of meat, right?
I've found that "meat" is sometimes used in casual English as "Animal muscle/meat, but not fish" I think there's a slight conceptual divide on both the hard-carnivore-against-fish and pescatarian groups. Old world traditions tend to distinguish them separately as well.
True, but it's just stupid, fish are animals.
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You know that fish is a type of meat, right?
Lots of cultures don't class fish in with most meats. In traditional Catholicism the rule against meat on Fridays didn't apply to fish and likewise with Japanese Buddhist rules against meat eating. It's sort of like how most people consider tomatoes to be vegetables even though they aren't, scientifically. Yeah, in 21st century English fish is a meat but it's non-centrally meat so the meaning is clear when you apply…
> In traditional Catholicism the rule against meat on Fridays didn't apply to fish
Beaver meat is also a-ok! https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/thoughtful-animal/once-...
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#47I really wish plastics were recycled/reused a lot more, because they are such ideal materials --- being rather unreactive, flexible, resilient, and (in the case of thermoplastics, which make up the bulk of this waste) easily reprocessed. Although the throwaway culture and low cost means that a lot of it doesn't, I wonder if in the future, if the prices go up in following petroleum trends, "mining" for plastics would…
There is a lot of plastic waste your not allowed to put in the recycle bin, such as plastic wrappers for food.
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#48Prediction: evolution will solve what humans are incapable of. That means species of fish evolving that specializes in eating plastic. Kinda makes sense. While plastic isn't bio-degradeable in the normal sense, perhaps the digestive system of a specialized fish will succeed. After all there is an abundance.
The evolutionary pressure to cause a mutated, plastic-eating fish to outcompete non-plastic-eating fish would suggest that there would be areas where plastic was more abundant that the other things (plankton, mostly) that fish normally feed on, i.e. other fish would be at a disadvantage because they couldn't process plastic. That's a pretty dire scenario for humans.
Not necessarily. A lot of the flora and fauna in the New World developed somewhat independently from that in the old one. So we might have these new species evolve in regions of the oceans where the plastic is more abundant.
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#49Bioaccumulation is a serious thing. I suspect increase of plastic in fish might be related to the reduction in sperm count in men.[0][1] [0] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bpa-semen-quality... [1] http://www.deepseanews.com/2014/10/a-story-about-fish-plasti...
Eating lower in the food chain is a practical and accessible solution.
Lean meats are also preferable to fatty, and animals that grow fast are preferable those that grow slowly.
Pigs and chickens are fairly safe, and perfectly ethical if you source responsibly.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
You know that fish is a type of meat, right?
Lots of cultures don't class fish in with most meats. In traditional Catholicism the rule against meat on Fridays didn't apply to fish and likewise with Japanese Buddhist rules against meat eating. It's sort of like how most people consider tomatoes to be vegetables even though they aren't, scientifically. Yeah, in 21st century English fish is a meat but it's non-centrally meat so the meaning is clear when you apply…
Likewise chicken is often not considered 'meat' despite clearly being the flesh of an animal. It's kind of weird, but not as weird as the people who think "a little bit of ham" in a salad doesn't count as meat.