Be Warned: Fish Toxin Causing Serious Illness

re: Be Warned: Fish Toxin Causing Serious Illness

icme — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:15:42 GMT

This concerns the fish found in the northern gulf area? Hmmm.... I'd be curious if this had something to do with all of the contaminated water that was washed off the coastal areas during all of the horrific hurricane storms over the past few years. I remember seeing so many reports about all of the horrid flood water that had drowned New Orleans for so long at the time. I'd venture that the contamination weakened the immune systems of the affected marine life and made them susceptible to all sorts of infections.

re: Be Warned: Fish Toxin Causing Serious Illness

Jerry2u — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 23:40:37 GMT

Caveat emptor is not just good advice today; it's a full scale alert. Sadly, very few of the people we've allowed to look out for us (e.g. government agencies, public health officials, etc.) give us much warning at all, if any, of the dangerous state of our environment or eco-system. Oddly, millions are totally oblivious to the dangers. Ignorance is bliss, I suppose. I'm just thankful to have access to a website like this, where information critical to our survival can be found, even if it doesn't paint the pretty picture of the world we'd love to see.

re: Be Warned: Fish Toxin Causing Serious Illness

Russ Bianchi — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 23:59:43 GMT

As deep water drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico increases, residual toxicity in the fish population will increase, due to several cancer causing solvents used in the drilling, pumping, recovery, derrick maintenance, and tanker shipment operations ALWAYS being spilled.

But don't ask the OIL companies, with the largest windfall profits in the entire history of capitalism, to fix this, because they 'wink-wink' are not required to, because of their own K Street lobbyists 'bribe-bribe', on both sides of the isles, in the House and Senate, of the US Congress, protection.

re: Be Warned: Fish Toxin Causing Serious Illness

mmc88121 — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:48:49 GMT

It looks like nothing is safe to eat anymore, unless you raise it yourself, or at least no how it has been raised.

Mary

re: Be Warned: Fish Toxin Causing Serious Illness

foxtroter_203 — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:59:50 GMT

Though predominantly a tropical water problem of the Pacific and Caribbean, ciguatoxin has been found in farm-raised salmon.

There is also some evidence that it can be sexually transmitted. So never have sex after eating fish--LOL

Always feed your annoying neighbor's cat the fish you plan to eat first.---not really--just kidding--I actually love cats.