on giving up fish

[Guest guest]

I shared this on another board but when I bought Linda McCartney's Vegetarian

Chicken Meal at Wild Oats....it had anchovies in it, which of course is fish.

Obviously from what is written below if Linda was alive she wouldn't have

let that happen. But it's true. Very sad to me that you have to watch for

fish in a commercially prepared VEGETARIAN meal. And there are way's to fake

anchovy taste too.

 

Take care,

Suzanne

 

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> Fish was/is a tough one for me too. I loved it always.

> But I gave it up because of the way it is treated and killed.

> Because of the dangerous mercury levels in much of it,

> and because of the way we as a species are over fishing

> the oceans causing many of the sealife and surrounding

> eco systems to go dangerously close to exstiction levels.

> As much as I enjoyed that tuna sandwich or those fish

> and chips, it just wasn't worth it to me to know what it was

> doing to the fish and to our planet.

> Now when I feel tempted I remember things I have read about

> the environmental impact. It also helps me to visit the river

> and to watch the fish swimming; I live in Oregon very near

> the Rogue River that has large salmon runs in the spring

> and fall. They are so alive and beautiful. Fish have even been

> discovered to have a culture beyond what humans have always

> just thought was instinctual behavior.

> The late Linda McCartney said in one of her cookbook forewords

> that she stopped calling it seafood and instead began refering

> to all fish and the like as seaLIFE. I do that now, too. It is a

> helpful reminder to me that they are all sentient life.

>

> ~ pt ~

 

 

If the Lord brings you to it....he will bring you through it!

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Fish was/is a tough one for me too. I loved it always.

But I gave it up because of the way it is treated and killed.

Because of the dangerous mercury levels in much of it,

and because of the way we as a species are over fishing

the oceans causing many of the sealife and surrounding

eco systems to go dangerously close to exstiction levels.

As much as I enjoyed that tuna sandwich or those fish

and chips, it just wasn't worth it to me to know what it was

doing to the fish and to our planet.

Now when I feel tempted I remember things I have read about

the environmental impact. It also helps me to visit the river

and to watch the fish swimming; I live in Oregon very near

the Rogue River that has large salmon runs in the spring

and fall. They are so alive and beautiful. Fish have even been

discovered to have a culture beyond what humans have always

just thought was instinctual behavior.

The late Linda McCartney said in one of her cookbook forewords

that she stopped calling it seafood and instead began refering

to all fish and the like as seaLIFE. I do that now, too. It is a

helpful reminder to me that they are all sentient life.

 

~ pt ~

 

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.

Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one.

Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

- Buddha (B.C. 568-488)

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, " goodkarma " <

karmacharmer@m...> wrote:

> I really liked hearing what made you a vegetarian. It brings me to

my

problem though... after moving to FL in 1197, i started to eat fish

in about

1998. I had been vegetarian since '94. Does anyone have a good site

or story

that i can keep in mind to help me give up fish?