How can you eat shellfish?!
How can you eat shellfish?
Prevention magazine of September, 1972, carried an interesting article entitled "Shellfish Are Dirty and Dangerous." The author appeared reluctant to take a stand, but he was committed to telling the truth on this sensitive subject. He wrote: "They're succulent; they're delicious; they're even nutritious. But, because of the nature of the mollusk and the sewage-like pollution of its habitat, we must in good conscience advise you to avoid shellfish, no matter how they tempt you, and even though those around you seem to be swallowing them with delight. The day of reckoning cometh.
"Why are shellfish so dangerous? Because they are many times more polluted than the filthy waters they inhabit.
"Unfortunately they choose to live and love and multiply in estuaries along coastal regions. These estuaries are particularly subject to discharge of sewage, sewage effluent, and other water-borne pollution from municipal discharges, from suburban home drainage and agricultural runoff.
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"The polluted aspect of their habitat is one danger. The fact that they are filter feeders compounds the danger.
"Oysters, for instance, because of their way of obtaining and absorbing food, have been found to concentrate polio virus up to 20 to 60 times the level of the surrounding seawater.
"No other animal food offered on the menu of your favorite eating place would be served to you along with its feces. Yet this is the case with seafood. It is served whole; complete with its intestinal tract."
Can you imagine anyone finding such fare to be a culinary delicacy? Over and over again outbreaks of hepatitis have been traced to the eating of seafood. After feeding on raw sewage, the creatur
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is harvested and sold. The disease is simply cycled from man to mollusk and then back to man.
So, knowing all this how can you continue to eat shellfish?
Source: http://www.amazingfacts.org/items/read_m...
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"The polluted aspect of their habitat is one danger. The fact that they are filter feeders compounds the danger.
"Oysters, for instance, because of their way of obtaining and absorbing food, have been found to concentrate polio virus up to 20 to 60 times the level of the surrounding seawater.
"No other animal food offered on the menu of your favorite eating place would be served to you along with its feces. Yet this is the case with seafood. It is served whole; complete with its intestinal tract."
Can you imagine anyone finding such fare to be a culinary delicacy? Over and over again outbreaks of hepatitis have been traced to the eating of seafood. After feeding on raw sewage, the creatur
2 weeks ago
is harvested and sold. The disease is simply cycled from man to mollusk and then back to man.
So, knowing all this how can you continue to eat shellfish?
Source: http://www.amazingfacts.org/items/read_m...
Thats why I can't and Won't eat them XD
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Because it is REALLY good.
And I don't eat raw oysters, I like them fried
Because it tastes good. And some shell fish can be cleaned.
There are other non-shell fish foods that can be just as "dangerous" cleanliness are important in any food preparation.
And whats the difference between shell fish and say "bottom feeders" in lakes and ponds.
And...1972? that's a little outdated.
Fruits and Veggies that are "organically" grown can be also very dangerous.
I love shellfish, the taste and the texture. I could care less, since i've learned how to avoid bad products and cook food to health standards to serve public. Nothing could ever make me stop eating them, dispite there living conditions and the intestinal bacteria that they may host. You only live once, why not eat what you want and do what you want to do before you die, even if it may be "bad" considederd by others. Besides that article was pubished in 72', alot more scientific reseach has been done on shellfish, makeing them as some of the healthiest meat on the earth to eat, due to there lack of fat and high amount of vitamins
Some of the best raw oysters I have ever eaten came from Apalachicola Bay in North Florida. I ate them because I know those waters and the oysters.
Same with crabs from Chesapeake Bay in Maryland, stone crabs from south Florida, or clams from New England.
You have to know the origin of the shell fish. If you don't, then cook it, but the high heat, while killing off the bad stuff toughens the meat and makes the food less enjoyable.
Shrimp are usually eaten cooked and it is best to 'de-vein' them before cooking. The vein is really the shrimp's digestive track and while not a big risk you are eating shrimp poop.
Mussels are a different story. These days a lot of mussels are cultivated on the legs of oil rigs and they are up above the sea bottom and away from the 'dirt'.
But the bottom line is to know the origin before you buy and before you eat.