Tuna species popular in sashimi and poke bowls in sharp decline
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#2Disruption of the food chain, cultural blow and sighs of disappointed foodies worldwide.
Hilsa, a fish from the Bengali delta (India and Bangladesh), periodically has similar crises, but seemed to be dredging along its cherished existence. Here is hoping that the Tuna fisheries will pick up a thing or two from that brood and execute some good measures.
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#3Tuna (horrific overfishing) and octopus (intelligence) are the two animals I won't eat.
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#4As someone who eats almost exclusively vegan I think it would be great as the whole world faces these issues, we see lots of switches to eating tofu or plant based foods.
Way cheaper. Can’t get so fat and unhealthy. And far healthier since most vegans and vegetarians live long and healthy lives compared to other groups.
Poke tastes great with tofu btw. We shouldn’t destroy the oceans.
Anyway I’m bracing for the inevitable downvote to oblivion
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#5As someone who eats almost exclusively vegan I think it would be great as the whole world faces these issues, we see lots of switches to eating tofu or plant based foods. Way cheaper. Can’t get so fat and unhealthy. And far healthier since most vegans and vegetarians live long and healthy lives compared to other groups. Poke tastes great with tofu btw. We shouldn’t destroy the oceans. Anyway I’m bracing for the inevi…
Not going to downvote you because I appreciate your position. It seems really unlikely that tuna consumption is driving obesity or detrimental health effects though.
Sushi lovers (and meat eaters) such as myself do need to make educated choices about their consumption though, I agree. Which is why basically any tuna species is (and has been) at the bottom of my list.
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#6Oh interesting. Time for an update to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowfin_tuna
That article's IUCN description is now wrong. I'll do it later today if someone doesn't get to it first.
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#7As someone who eats almost exclusively vegan I think it would be great as the whole world faces these issues, we see lots of switches to eating tofu or plant based foods. Way cheaper. Can’t get so fat and unhealthy. And far healthier since most vegans and vegetarians live long and healthy lives compared to other groups. Poke tastes great with tofu btw. We shouldn’t destroy the oceans. Anyway I’m bracing for the inevi…
> We shouldn’t destroy the oceans.
That's why this isn't great. Because this is not "we went vegan to save the oceans". It is "the oceans look like they are already destroyed".
Besides that, I haven't seen any studies that show a vegan or vegetarian diet makes someone healthier.
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#8I have family working as a UN advisor on sustainable food chains and she says the entire ecosystem in the oceans could potentially collapse in 10 to 20 years if we don't stop large scale fishing entirely, especially trawl and unreported fishing destroying the seafloor and acidity going haywire.
I have no idea if this is correct but i'm pretty sure around 1 billion rely on this food and can't imagine what would happen if this somehow got removed from the system.
Does anyone know if it's really that bad?
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#9Tuna (horrific overfishing) and octopus (intelligence) are the two animals I won't eat.
Amusing anecdote - I used to eat octopus whenever I could get my hands on it, but always as an ingredient in a larger dish - e.g. chunks of octopus in a stew or sauce.
One day I ordered octopus tentacle from a tapas bar, and it arrived whole (and beautifully presented as a centerpiece of sorts). This surfaced many memories of nature documentaries demonstrating the wit and resilience of the octopus.
Looking at the delicacy artfully arranged on its plate, all I could think was "Jesus, that's _someone's arm_ we're eating!"
Took a bite, nearly threw up, and haven't eaten octopus since.
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#10As someone who eats almost exclusively vegan I think it would be great as the whole world faces these issues, we see lots of switches to eating tofu or plant based foods. Way cheaper. Can’t get so fat and unhealthy. And far healthier since most vegans and vegetarians live long and healthy lives compared to other groups. Poke tastes great with tofu btw. We shouldn’t destroy the oceans. Anyway I’m bracing for the inevi…
> Way cheaper. Can’t get so fat and unhealthy.
But not nearly as tasty :-(
[UPDATE] Why all the hate? I thought I was making a serious point: food is not just about health, it's also about enjoyment. You can survive on beans and rice, but there are people, myself included, who would happily give up a few years of life expectancy for a more diverse diet.