Well I'm Veggie, so I throw them all back. The health issues are just a sad reminder of what we've done to the planet. Think about it for a minute. Mercury only naturally exists in a few places, deep in the bowels of the Earth, and yet we've used (misused) so much of it that it can now be found in virtually every fish, in every ocean on the entire planet :/ And it ain't going anywhere. Toxic heavy metal poisonings are no joke and can lead to a whole host of neurological problems that you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy, and it don't take much. Don't believe me, go eat some lead paint chips, or sniff some leaded gasoline fumes for a while, and let me know what happens. Better yet, let your kids do it.
Lead, there's another one. Don't even get me started on that one. Everyone knows about lead in old paint and gas, but the real culprit are bullets. Hundreds and hundreds of tons of lead have been fired and left idle at the range, woods and elsewhere. All the while leaching into the groundwater and soil beneath it. Fun, fun, fun. Yet another reason I'm glad I'm Veggie. Plus, I can always take a pic and let the fish go, but you can't really un-shoot a deer. (No. I'm not anti-gun, just anti-not cleaning up your mess and unintended lead toxicity. Your bullets have the right to kill your game, not me via lead poisoning)
Never mind the plummeting fish stocks, because you know if you live in Kansas 1,500 miles form the nearest ocean you should be able to get Bluefin tuna anytime you want it, right? (sarcasm + facepalm) :/ Here's a thought; go to the sea to get "Sea Food", not the midwest. We'll do the same and call if we need some corn, or something. Oh, and if you think you're sidestepping the issue because you're getting "farm raised" Catfish/Tilapia (ick), Salmon (double ick), and/or Shrimp (triple ick) you're wrong. Instead of "farm raised" think "giant cesspool of bacteria, viruses, filth and waist". Also, there's a reason people who can and do catch real salmon, catfish, etc...won't go near that farm raised crap for all the tea in China. Once you've had real Salmon, that artificially dyed, orange s#%t they try to sell to the suckers at the store just won't cut it anymore, and nor should it. It's just like making sausages. (Yeah, you don't wanna know how they do that either. Pink Slime anyone? Come on it's good enough for our kids, right?) After all, how do you think they get a pound of shrimp shipped in from half way around the world to cost less than the stuff swimming in our own oceans? The same way we get $10 tools for $2 at Harbor Freight :/ Never mind the fact that every pound of foreign shrimp you buy, puts a local fisherman out of business. That is when the oil companies aren't also helping out by releasing untold millions of gallons of crude oil into the Gulf. So you see there really is only one way to win the game, which is not to play. (anyone remember War Games?)
I'll get off my soapbox now
Take only pictures, leave only footprints.
