About Seafood

The Big Hollywood Blog has a Greenpeace feature today that is a must read. It includes a video clip from a BBC program in which the cornered Executive Director of Greenpeace squirms quite a bit before...

The U.S. Geological Survey is releasing a study today that "Reveals Mercury Contamination in Fish Nationwide." And so it appears to be the case. No argument here. Nope. If that's what their study show...

Jeremy Piven is out talkin' mercury poisoning again and, as usual, with shovel in hand he's diggin'. This time Piven goes into his ignorant song and dance about only eating fish for 23 years and how h...

Remember a while back when actor Jeremy Piven bailed out on his Broadway contract and then claimed he had mercury poising from eating sushi? But he hadn't quite done his research for that role because...

Really? No not really. But for months if not years NBC News has relied on an erroneous statistic that suggested the oceans would be empty of fish by 2048. A statistic that was in error, an error tha...

In 2006 marine ecologist Boris Worm of Dalhousie University suggested that the oceans would be empty of fish by 2048. His prediction made for good sound bite science and the media ran with it. The pro...

At the first sign of even minimal apprehension about the state of any fish stock many environmental extremists go right to the only page they know in the Henny Penny playbook and scream-collapse. Som...

On Saturday the New York Times editorialized on the issue of mercury emissions from America's coal-fired power plants in the wake of a decision by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to begin a r...

Yesterday the New York Times, Tara Parker-Pope of the blog Well, linked to a piece on shopping for sustainable seafood over at True/Slant written by Seattle food writer Kim O'Donnel. Before diving in...

Two things-- #1 I like Slate.com, it's usually fresh, illuminating and not afraid to call a spade a spade; qualities I tend to look for in a publication. #2 I am used to being left on the cutting room...