gbearbuck said:
we're cutting our red meat intake down and eating more chicken, fish, and pork... I cannot wait for my wife to stop her "it's time to get healthy"... I miss red meat
You should probably explain to your wife that generations of water pollution have lead to an increase in mercury and PCBs in fish, particularly sport fish, that have destroyed any nutritional value the fish once had for our grandparents' generation and many of the contaminants carried in fish are known to cause severe neurological disorders.
Sport fish are particularly bad. The EPA suggests, for example, that pregnant women and children eat no more than one of the following
per month (that means one of anything on this list):
canned tuna
mahi mahi
blue mussels
eastern oyster
cod
pollock
salmon (all great lakes varieties)
blue crab (gulf of mexico)
channel catfish (wild)
lake whitefish
All of the following are under review by the EPA:
walleye, northern pike, largemouth bass, sea bass, atlantic cod, black grouper, orange roughy, bluefish, pacific cod, red grouper, sand perch, bonito, pollock, red snapper, white perch, porgy, yellowtail, rockfish, dover sole, halibut, lake trout, flounder.
The following are the fish species that are
least contaminated with methylmercury (note: the emphasis is on 'least contaminated' not 'not contaminated').
farmed trout
farmed catfish
shrimp
fish sticks
flounder (summer)
salmon (wild pacific)
croaker
blue crab (mid atlantic)
haddock
I'll have the steak please ...