The most sustainable seafood for your pescatarian diet 🐟
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- Getting your protein from the sea with the planet in mind? Well, it's pretty complicated. We laid out all the (sometimes contradictory) factors that go into a climate-friendly, fish-filled diet in this video.
And a very special thanks to The Athenian for letting us film in their space and telling us "it's on the house" as we were trying to leave and pay for our half-dozen oysters.
I will never get tired of seafood. 10 years Pescatarian still going strong and healthy.
I am considering going pescatarian instead of vegan. I just can’t seem to find many good resources that are recent.
@@PinkieJoJo do what you feel
I’ve been vegetarian 3 years and recently switched to pescatarian but I’m worried about consuming too much mercury. I eat wild caught or farmed raised salmon everyday I wonder if that is okay?
@@exohuman1308 Eat tinned sardines. Really low in mercury. Sardines are a superfood. High in omega 3, complete protein, iodine, calcium, and b12.
This video didn't say anything about heavy metals in seafood.
Mussels and sardines/herring are a huge part of my daily protein diet. I’ll have salmon or snapper (my fav) once maybe twice a week, and shrimp a couple times more, but mussels really were the best way to go for me. They’re Affordable and can be made several different ways since it can take on many different flavors. Pescatarianism can definitely be ethical.
been a pescatarian since i was nine, am 14 now :)) never regretted it
I just decided to be a pescatarian a few days ago! Your video made me very happy & confident…🙌🏻💖
howd it go for u
My husband is a commercial fisherman. I have a freezer full of halibut and Dungeness crab. We live next to an oyster farm, and we love love love steamer clams and shrimp. Next well stock up on salmon but I must admit- I dont think I like salmon 👀
If you're like me and don't give a flying F about the carbon footprint, pescatarian is the healthiest and most sustainable diet.
I was pescatarian from 0-12 then vegetarian 13-33 then vegan which ive been for the past 3 years
I appreciate the attempt to clarify but still found several things confusing. What was being said about the salmon as a treat? Something about a plate??? It was difficult to follow. Also, after avoiding shrimp there was a positive note about prawns. Why? What's the difference?
Larger fish have higher concentrations of toxic metals and waste products. If you want to eat seafood regularly, smaller fish are better such as sardines. The process is called biomagnification.
Sardines is the way to go :)
yes but keep in mind that smaller fish and bivalves are higher in microplastics
The smaller fish aren’t predictors, very low if any mercury!
Hmm how concerned should you be with mercury contained in fish when going pescatarian?
Well apparently a high selenium content counteracts the effects of methyl mercury. The highest concern is fish with low selenium levels or just too high of methyl mercury levels like Shark or Swordfish. If you're still concerned about it you can try sardines, mackeral, oysters etc. A pescatarian diet does have pretty damn good health benefits as far as mpdern research is concerned.
You don't need to worry about the Mercury content in fish all that much. Unless you're eating a lot of fish per week(FDA recommends no more than 12oz of salmon/week)and you're a woman of childbearing age or pregnant. The benefits outweigh the risks.
if you want to know more about how much of what type of fish you can consume you can consult the FDA's website.
Read the book
The iodine crisis
Iodine is great to clean heavy metals
Well done, short and sweet! Thanks for your research, Umbra!
Hey, glad you enjoyed it!
Im not quite there yet - but Im moving in the direction of a Pescatarian diet.
Would like to make one point tho (and I live in the UK so perhaps prevalance if fish species and catching methods are different from NA) - but some big fish are totally fine.
Pollock for example is just as tasty as Cod. It's slightly less versitile as it's a softer flesh. So... would mush up in a stew. But grilled or baked - even mashed up in fishcakes and it's fantastic. They are all line caught here in the UK **IF** you get them from your local fishmonger.
There's also Ling. Line caught on wrecks. You cant trawl them. It has to be sustainable to get them. Only available in a proper fishmonger.
Also try a portion of Whelks if your fishmonger sells them. They are not to everyones taste - but with a bit of vinigar and white pepper served chilled, they are lovely. And a very healthy and sustainable addition to your diet.
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This was super informative and helpful.
Where was this filmed?
$27/lb of shrimp???
Salmon fillet $24.50/lb???
Salmon fillet in Toronto is like $6/lb average.
i love this video!!! really is part of my struggle haha
This was so flipping helpful
so can someone tell me.. am i ok to eat cod & salmon ? thats the only fish i eat not the squidgy stuff
Cod is a bit rough due to being overfished, I would avoid but it isn't a drastic issue like Swordfish. Alaskan Salmon is the most sustainable.
My personal preference for seafood is Catfish, since it is very very sustainable to farm, and it just tastes really good imo.
eat farmed mollusks (mussels and such) once to twice a week it's that simple
Living in the philippines and i live close to the beach and stuff so definitely pescatarian diet all the way.. get your natural testosterone level 1000 lol fresh oysters for breakfast!!!!
Yeah you go girl. Where l come from we call seafood Kaimoana. And raw oysters with vinegar and lemon or by themselves are a real delicacy. Mmmmmmm.
Hey Umbra. Do you know if it's okay to eat the little soy sauce fish that comes with the sushi? Is it sustainable? Thanks, Oli
Oli, while those are considering waste products in many parts of the world they can make a nice, low-carbon treat - we recommend putting them in a soy ginger marinade for a thousand years or so. It's more tender at that point and the ginger adds a little punch.
The Monterey Bay Aquarium is working on several of the issues mentioned in the video. It's engaged with small-scale producers in Southeast Asia to improve the environmental and social sustainability of farmed shrimp in particular, and is working with salmon farms in Chile to reduce their reliance on antibiotics. It's online, science-based seafood recommendations can help consumers navigate the complexities of seafood sustainability. And, with partners, it's developed a social justice risk assessment tool and another tool to help evaluate the relative carbon footprint of different types of seafood production. (Both tools are most useful for businesses that are trying to improve the social and environmental sustainability of their seafood supply chains -- since businesses generally have more detailed information about where their seafood is coming from than is available to the average consumer at a supermarket or a restaurant.)
I’ve became one with no problem.
Lacto-ovo insectivore pesictarian reducitarian for me. Can’t go back now.
Enlightening and curiosity-piquing!!! thanks :)
Hmmm..
Good when caught in US and Canada? Rubbish! Lol
Fish feel pain, a-holes.
...going vegan is even better for the planet and our aquatic friends ;)
ur kidding right ? vegetables need water and land , lots of it . and the underpaid labor to that as well.
The poor seaweed
@@Gummybearkillerr and what do animals eat ? Vegetables and crops that use a lot of water .
@@micah864 im a vegetarian myself but i know both are not guilt free and both have their own problems
@@Gummybearkillerr exactly
Isn't around 50% of the plastic in the ocean old fishing equipment? I don't really see the point in vegetarianism/eating veg and fish, if you wanna change your diet to help the planet, your body and to be more ethical, why not just go vegan?
for health reasons
MattyGee no thank you.
because its a very deteriorating diet, basically slow starvation.
I'm pretty sure growing my own rice and fishing once a month is more ethical than giving money to farm corporations but ok.
This seems like a video to confuse you and make you say forget it and eat land animals again curse the internet
Sorry to disappoint Mike! Here's a tl:dr shortlist of options to prevent you from cursing the internet
Great to eat:
Sardines, herring, mackerel, farmed mussels, farmed clams, farmed oysters
Special treat:
Salmon, cod, larger fish (what's best here unfortunately requires a bit more research)
Also eat lots of plants!
Without a doubt the most cruel and environmentally destructive way to obtain protein
Not for the climate. For you. Smh