Maguro Madness
An invite to a Bluefin Tuna tasting came and we had RSVP-ed. I started doing a little bit of research online to find out more about this fish. To my freaking horror, Bluefin is endangered and calls for its ban have been overturned!
Nearly every website that talked about the Bluefin talked about how it is overfished and had videos showing them swimming in schools and then being dragged out of their element onto ships and hacked to death. Ugh. I spent all afternoon nearly tearing over those footages and feeling so guilty.
So when we got there I only had two slivers of fish. But I also asked about the sustainability of eating Bluefin to which they said theirs is farmed so okay, I guess that beats depriving tunas from the deep blue of life.
But I think I'm going to pledge to eat a little less sushi. And then maybe one day give up meat...? I don't know but I will have to think about it long and hard. My mother thinks I'm a hippie because of that; can you say stereotype much?
Nearly every website that talked about the Bluefin talked about how it is overfished and had videos showing them swimming in schools and then being dragged out of their element onto ships and hacked to death. Ugh. I spent all afternoon nearly tearing over those footages and feeling so guilty.
So when we got there I only had two slivers of fish. But I also asked about the sustainability of eating Bluefin to which they said theirs is farmed so okay, I guess that beats depriving tunas from the deep blue of life.
But I think I'm going to pledge to eat a little less sushi. And then maybe one day give up meat...? I don't know but I will have to think about it long and hard. My mother thinks I'm a hippie because of that; can you say stereotype much?