This parrot fish at the fish stand in Honolulu Chinatown looked too good, not to buy it.
After yesterday’s post, I just wonder how safe is it? How much of the chemicals from the pelagic plastic we found on the beach, have made their way into the flesh of the parrot fish?
La Marguerite 
It probably depends on how high up on the food chain the fish is and what waters it was lurking in…
I gave up meat many many years ago, but I had food poisoning from some poorly prepared vegetables at a restaurant not long ago.
go figure …
ps – one of the cool things about being a vegetarian is that it *really* annoys most republicans
If you lived in the UK or SA you could have sent an SMS to FishMS (http://www.wwf.org.za/sassi/) it would at least tell you if it was fished legally. Its about time we asked this question more often about the food we eat.
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Its more than mere plastic that’s in the fish that is harmful to us. Google search will tell you all gory details on all the toxins in the fish. Let me just say – it’s like what they say about sausage making — one almost does not want to know the details on what goes on in the food industry to put the food on our plates every night….be it vegetables, chicken, or fish!
For better or for worse (latter mostly!), I (we?) have learned to live with all this! Maybe because I wouldn’t be able to eat anything if I kept worrying about it.
Sometimes I wonder if my grandparents (who lived on a small farm in rural India and farmed many of their own crops, ate fish that was caught fresh that morning, and ate vegetables fresh off the backyard of someone local in their or neighboring village) had a better life than I do. What price this success, this education/knowledge, this world-view, this money, ….
That said.. over-fishing has meant good fish are few and far between in my grandfathers village today; people have moved out of the villages to towns/cities for better jobs and farming is a tough life in which not many are involved in today.
I was still very delighted to see rows and rows of vegetables* that the appointed caretaker is growing on the land. Looked beautiful! 🙂
* Picture of the rows of vegetables taken earlier this year during a visit there at the following link, if you are interested..
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La Maguerite (sorry – do not know your name)…
1) Can u delete the http:// … part in above post.
The — here — with the right hyperlinked picture can remain.
2) I think you will find this interesting.
Superheroes attack Great Pacific Garbage Patch
http://blogfishx.blogspot.com/2008/09/superheroes-attack-great-pacific.html
What’s bigger than Texas, floats, and is a stinky rotten mess? It’s the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a floating convergance of our garbage that lives in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
More at the blogfishx blog about Alaskan salmons, whales, drugs in the ocean water, endangered fish, etc.
Its too pretty for a fish to be eaten. I wouldn’t eat it but would rather have it in my fish tank.
I THINK ITS WORSE TO KEEP FISH IN A TANK FOR A SLOW BORING DEATH THEN FLUSHED DOWN THEN KILL IT AND EAT IT FRESH. WHAT DO LOOKS HAVE TO DO WITH IF IT IS GOOD OR NOT TO EAT.
Parrot fish are in decline where I live, (Bonaire), and they are crucial to the health of the eco system of the reef, b/c they eat the aglae that destroys it. That’s one thing. The other is – who wouldn’t want a creature as lovely as this to be ALIVE in its own habitat??