The activist-led panic against mercury in fish is harming the American diet (Opinion)
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Forbes] By Gavin Gibbons - September 30, 2014
(Gavin Gibbons is Vice President of Communications at the National Fisheries Institute.)
Next week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is hosting a three-day forum focused on the increasingly politicized topic of mercury contamination in fish. Why should you care? Because of all the scattered skirmishes in the ongoing food wars—from soda sizes to trans fats —the activist-led attack on seafood is unique.
That’s because if you stop eating those other foods, nothing bad is going to happen to you. But if you stop eating seafood, you’re actually putting yourself at risk.
This warning would be easy to dismiss as rhetoric were it simply coming from the seafood industry. But it is based on countless independent, peer-reviewed studies showing that when we don’t eat enough seafood we see cognitive impediments in children, and more preventable cardiovascular deaths in adults. It’s a warning...
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