Top 15 Contaminated Fish You Shouldn’t be Eating

BySustainMe

Top 15 Contaminated Fish You Shouldn’t be Eating:

What’s the USDA recommendation for Mercury intake?

If you eat some of these fish, you will exceed safe levels if you eat it more than once every couple weeks. Sharks and swordfish I new about, but others in the list are a real eye-opener.

Biomagnification is where toxic chemicals such as mercury build up more and more as it moves up the food chain (to humans).

This is a really good article with lots of good information on sustainability and safe eating levels of fish.

Maybe salmon will move up on many people’s list. Sustainable, wild would be best, of course.

‘via Blog this’

Similar Posts

  • | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

    Linear Economy vs Circular Economy: Why Solvency Matters

    ByElmer Hall

    Modern economies are often evaluated by growth, productivity, and short-term profitability. Yet these metrics can obscure a more fundamental question: Is the system solvent when all costs are counted? The distinction between a linear economy and a circular economy is not primarily an environmental debate—it is an accounting one. Linear systems extract resources, convert them…

  • Shhh!!! Don't tell anyone it is healthy(er). With low(er) Salt.

    BySustainMe

    Food Makers’ Secret Ingredient: Less Salt http://online.wsj.com/articles/food-companies-quietly-cut-salt-fat-from-recipes-1403566403 Thanks. But it is too bad it has to be a secret. It is interesting how taistless and healthy seems to be synonimous to many people. In the meanwhile, there is so much salt in things like soup, that even then “low salt” soups are 25 to 50%…

  • That soda will kill ya!

    BySustainMe

    Sodas will kill you, it seems. Sugar, hfcs, or artificial sweerners, all will shorten your life.! This massive study in Europe followed almost a half million people for an average of 16 years, analyzing death rates. Drinking two or more sodas was correlated to many types of fatal illnesses. Other studies have shown links to…

  • | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

    Molecular Transition to a Regenerative Economy from Linear Fossil Fuel Systems

    ByElmer Hall

    Why sustainability requires redesigning industrial systems — not just replacing energy sources The defining sustainability challenge of the 21st century is not merely an energy transition — it is the molecular transition to a regenerative economy. Fossil fuels have shaped not only how societies generate power, but how industrial systems produce materials, infrastructure, and essential…

  • | | | | | | | | | | |

    Why Are We Treating Soil Like Dirt? – World Soil Day 2025 and the Future Beneath Our Feet

    ByElmer Hall

    We walk on it, pave over it, and only notice it when it clogs our tires or messes up our boots. We call it dirt, sweep it off our floors, and complain when it sticks to our shoes. But this same “dirt” quietly grows 95% of our food, filters our water, and stores more carbon…

  • Coconut oil isn’t healthy. It’s never been healthy.

    BySustainMe

    Coconut oil isn’t healthy. It’s never been healthy.: by Ashley May. *** See our update pertaining to this article. It seems like Ms May, may have overstated her case against the coconut. See the update here… okay-coconut-oil-really-is-good-for-you. *** Like many such as the poor egg with its off-the-charts level of cholesterol, several foods have gotten a…