Comments on: Mercury in Fish http://www.cheapcooking.com/blog/2006/05/mercury-in-fish.html Easy and cheap family recipes. Learn how to cook on a budget. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:41:46 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.cheapcooking.com/blog/2006/05/mercury-in-fish.html/comment-page-1#comment-374 Anonymous Fri, 26 May 2006 23:45:00 +0000 http://cheapcooking2.wordpress.com/2006/05/21/mercury-in-fish/#comment-374 The group is funded and supported by people that sell fish. The tone seeks to demonize people that study the effects and level of mercury in fish. That approach leaves me VERY suspicious. If they were unbiased and simply trying to get 'the truth' out they could refute the arguments put forward by researchers. <br/><br/>It reminds me of people that tear apart researchers studying global warming... The group is funded and supported by people that sell fish. The tone seeks to demonize people that study the effects and level of mercury in fish. That approach leaves me VERY suspicious. If they were unbiased and simply trying to get ‘the truth’ out they could refute the arguments put forward by researchers.

It reminds me of people that tear apart researchers studying global warming…

]]> By: Susan http://www.cheapcooking.com/blog/2006/05/mercury-in-fish.html/comment-page-1#comment-373 Susan Sun, 21 May 2006 19:38:00 +0000 http://cheapcooking2.wordpress.com/2006/05/21/mercury-in-fish/#comment-373 I don't know anything about that website, but I do know that the "don't eat the tilefish!" mercury warnings comes from a 1979 study done on 60 fish in the Gulf of Mexico. Which, granted, is where most of the tilefish sold to grocery stores & resturants comes from, but still--60 fish! in 1979! I don't know about other studies, but knowing that this one is old and limited makes me wonder . . . I don’t know anything about that website, but I do know that the “don’t eat the tilefish!” mercury warnings comes from a 1979 study done on 60 fish in the Gulf of Mexico. Which, granted, is where most of the tilefish sold to grocery stores & resturants comes from, but still–60 fish! in 1979! I don’t know about other studies, but knowing that this one is old and limited makes me wonder . . .

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