6 Reasons Tilapia Farming is Dangerous to Your Health
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Recent Studies have found that farm-raised Tilapia may cause more inflammation – Farm-raised tilapia has always been a popular source for fish, not only because it is widely available in the US, but it is also very inexpensive. However, before you stock up on Tilapia, you may want to know about its correlation to inflammation. Recent studies have concluded that eating Tilapia may worsen inflammation that can lead to heart disease, arthritis, asthma and a world of other serious health problems. People who resort to eating more fish as a way to get their dose of omega-3-fatty-acids and lessen their risk of heart attacks may want to hold off on the tilapia. In fact, a scientist from Wake Forest University has found that the inflammatory potential of tilapia is far greater than that of a hamburger or pork bacon!
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Farmed salmon may have at least 10 times the amount of cancer causing organic pollutants compared to the wild variety – This can most likely be attributed to the feeds that are used on farm raised fish. If you knew what went into the feeds of farm raised fish you would be horrified. Apparently, chicken feces is one of the main ingredients that go into farm fish feed. Not only that, the transfer of pig and duck waste to fish farms is also a very common practice.
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Farm-bred fish have been found to have high concentrations of antibiotics and pesticides – Where do farm-bred fish get their antibiotics? The crowded conditions of fish farms cause the fish to be more susceptible to disease. To keep them alive, farm owners give antibiotics to the fish to stave off disease. Farm-bred fish are also treated with pesticides to combat sea lice. The pesticides used to treat these fish are so deadly that they have been caused to kill wild salmon that are accidentally exposed to them. These pesticides are also eventually released in the ocean where they get into the bodies and systems of other marine life.
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Farm-bred fish also have lower levels of healthy nutrients– Many of us consume fish, hoping to reap the omega-3 fatty acid benefits that come with it. However, did you know that the omega-3-acids that are found in farm-raised fish are less usable to our bodies compared to wild bred fish. Farm-raised fish also has a lower protein content. Not only that, because farm-raised fish are kept in cages, they have the tendency to be fattier, and can have a higher concentration of omega-6 acids. The problem with getting too much omega 3 and omega 6 acids is that they may cause inflammation to the body.
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Dibutylin levels, a chemical used in PVC plastics is said to be 6 times higher in farm-raised mussels compared to wild ones – Dibutylin is toxic and can impair immune system function while also contributing to inflammation. Dibutylin may be the reason as to why there is a rise in asthma, obesity, allergies and other metabolic disorders in recent years.
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Dioxin levels are 11 times higher in farm-bred salmon compared to wild salmon – Dioxin is actually a very toxic chemical that can contribute to cancer and other complications. The problem with dioxin is that once it enters our system, it can take a very long time until it is let out. The half life of dioxin is about 7 to 11 years.
What to Eat Instead of Tilapia Recipes
Fish can be an incredible health building food if you go with wild-caught fish liked Sockeye Salmon. It’s loaded with the Omega-3 fats EPA and DHA and has incredible health benefits. As a quick rule of thumb for salmon, if it’s Pacific or Alaskan, it’s most likely wild caught, if it’s Atlantic salmon, it is almost always farm-raised.
Do you consume tilapia or farm-raised fish or do the ingredients worry you? Also, do you enjoy wild caught fish like alaskan salmon?
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Source: draxe.com
Very true
Who in their right mind would subs$#%&!@*ute tilapia for bacon?
We need to be careful not to take these studies out of the context. Tilapia, as everything we eat, could be as good or as bad as the imputs we use to raise them. If they come from China, or some unscrupulous farm in Colorado, where they were fed with cheap procesed feed, crammed in a murky solution of water, feces and undigested food, I won’t even touch them with a stick. But you can raise your own or buy them from an aquaponic farm, where density and feed are planed to produce not only a healthy fish but nutrient for vegetable raised beds, and this article has nothing to do with them.
And bacon isn’t better. The way pigs are raised today in those CAFO mega concentration camps, the food based on gmo’s that have been sprayed with Monsanto’s Round Up and what not, (remember, most of our pesticides and herbicides are liposolubles, solubles in fat) same thing with milk. A grain fed cow or pasture fed (but fertilized and sprayed pasture) a$#%&!@*ulates all those toxins in their fat…and that fat goes to milk….and to our bodies…so, don’t stop eating tilapia,milk or bacon, just support those who raised them properly, humanely and healthy. Support organics as a minimum. Go beyond organics!
What can we really eat without damaging our body! I believe is not only tilapia but the entire ocean is full with toxicity. Those barge boats on the ocean are dumpy unknown chemicals human can’t use because of high level of toxicity, they dumping trash of all sorts: tires, computers, etc. think the sea creature is take it in. Mankind with their so call technology advancement is destroying us, the human population . I believe Jehovah God who created the universe needs to intervene before we all disappear. CDC has so many disease in their Lab, they are perplexed, not even know what to call them. They remain under lockbox with $#%&!@*le ” disease but name: unknown”. They keep them as a secret for us human not to be alarmed. God is going to intervene as it says in Revelation 11:18. Yes, indeed he promise soon he will bring to ruin those who are destroying the earth because Isaiah 45:18 shows God’ s purpose for creating the earth.
What can we really eat without damaging our body! The food they planted are destroying us. Those barge boats are dumping all sorts of chemicals in the ocean which are destroying the sea creatures in return we human eats them & we are destroying us. I believe Jehovah God the Almighty must intervene as he promise on Revelation 11:18, soon he will put in ruin those who are destroying the earth because Isaiah 45:18 shows clearly why God created this beautiful planet earth. I believe in do time he will intervene and fix it because human is incapable to fix the mess they created.
:O
Ray Maas……
Who would eat this in the first place !!! Never ever liked it
Thank u for information from someone that really knows
never eat farm raised anything, most of them come from China and we all know how much they love to try to poison us. Cod, wild caught, all the way!!!!!
Denise Song Bird McKinley Monique Givens James JohnsonJohnson
It can be bad but through eating it my good cholestira; when higher nn the good in 1 month. so what can I say more then that!
Fry it and drop it on my plate hot out the grease!
Yeah, I’m hip to this information… sad…
Yep
Tilapia with Bacon sounds great!
Many farms raising tilapia are sustainable farms where none of this actually applies. Know the source of your food. My customers know me and the great pains I go through to provide healthy alternatives to the grocery store. Our pond is dirt lined and the feed is discarded plant matter for Tilapia and organically raised plants and livestock for our catfish.
The filter is the plants. No poisons here.
Talapia has a high mercury content.
Because most tilapia are mozambique hybrids. It is simply not true of pure strain blues.
Hybrids no matter where they are raised are unhealthy. Pure blue tilapia are healthybut grow slower and are harder to maintain.
I hate tilapia. Tastes awful. Now it’s bad for you too?
I don’t eat that bottom feeder
All my friends who had cancer and took my zany advice and started drinking this very special Kangen alkaline water have had their cancer go into remission(. Leukemia , non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and forth stage ovarian cancer). And the after and side effects of chemo have been greatly decreased. Four friends with cancer however who for various reasons did not listen to the advice drink Kangen, are no longer with us on the earthly plane. Maybe she could draw some kind of conclusion to this because I’m not a scientist.
Wait…bacon is bad?
Again this bul$#%&!@*? A fish, a chicken, a cow, is as good or as bad as what you feed them! Just like people!
Um no
Vegetarian indeed…kidding me?
They are force fed poop btw
I did know!!
How are they force fed poop?
Ewe gross. I didn’t know that. Thank you!
UGGGGH!!! I LOVE TILAPIA!!!!! DANG IT!!
Is this true Elaine Whalen?
You can have it once in awhile, the farmed fisheries have questionable feeding habits and overcrowding, poor quality food and swimming in their feces. Wild Tilapia is pretty high in Mercury. Personally I’d go with the wild caught but don’t have it more than once a week, children under five really shouldn’t have any fish with mercury in it! Eat sardines and anchovies
I don’t eat it. Never have. $#%&!@* fish.
Ouch!
You have to eat wild-caught fish, all kinds, not just tilapia. Farm raised fish are not good for you.
Dave Milliron, Cody Milliron
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s MyPlate scheme recommends you consume at least 8 ounces of seafood each week. Tilapia is a good protein source that fits in the “protein foods” group in MyPlate and is a healthy choice for several reasons. Like many other types of seafood, tilapia contains some unsaturated fat, calcium and a large amount of protein. http://www.livestrong.com/article/377292-is-tilapia-fish-healthy/
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Patricia Purks told u it was bad
Crap…….we grow this fish in our back yard back home..organic tilapia..no problem…
Beautiful glorioso culto
I use to eat not anymore. ….
Yes you did. Dont eat much any more. Actually cant remember when I had it. Mostly eat wild caught salmon.
I did know this and do avoid it
So.. Stick to bacon then?
Do u know how talapia is raised and what they eat? Dirtiest job mike rowe did a story on it..WASN’T FARM RAISED…ever since that show i refuse to eat..so check it out..no need to comment cause i dont need opinions..no offense
Everything is farmed so most fish are out!!!
That’s not true I’ve worked in aquabiodomes and guess what it’s a soy/wheat $#%&!@* storm all genetically modified and if antibiotics are not used the fish die not to mention the dye that has to be added to the salmon nothing is safe anymore nice try though !!
I’m so sick of all the complex studies being done! I’m surprised they haven’t discovered that OXYGEN causes lung cancer, and WATER could cause kidney failure especially if you combine drinking water and breathing at the same time!!!!!!
There’s goes dinner
That figures. I think that fish tasty nasty. Always did, and now I know why!!
NEVER ate a bite of this fish EVER and I have ALL the problems you described and MORE 🙁 but YUK, GROSS, EEEWWWW I am on a mission to tell everyone I know about this icky fish!
go girl
I’m just glad I fish!
I love reading stuff like this as a shove a gas station chicken sandwich down my throat
Hahahahaha
Oh yeah. Known to cause cancer in laboratory animals. It says it on the package. Or USED TO. They MAY have removed it. Idk
OH MY GOD NO WAY!!
Where or how do we know it is wild caught?
Jennifer Rice did you read the thread? Miss you by the way. Fisherman being arrested!!? Bacon wrapped tilapia!! OMG lol
Because if it on the internet_/ facebook, it MUST BE TRUE. Some folks need to research Tilapia and see for themselves whats really up…..but OH NO!!! THAT MIGHT REQUIRE READING AND COMPREHENSION SKILLS!! WOE IS ME!
Yes I did
Peggy Peters….????
Sacha Smith, Marilia Hicks
Isn’t that a fine howdy do!
You get what you pay for. Period.
Not sure I believe you. Need to do research. But good for you for standing up for yourself. We read so much crap. I need to hear the real side of the story. Yours.
Yep… don’t eat it or bacon
That’s all good to me. Can’t stand the taste of tilapia.
Why you must eat wild caught-not farm raised!!!
Wow, they always says stuff good for you, then, ten years down the road it causes this and that.
Bacon without nitrates is good for you. 😉
Samantha
full of crap wat about gulf shrimp
I thought he was out he should bud out and leave The law enforcement alone
I read don’t eat Tilapia from China. I read every package if it says China I don’t mess with it..
That’s why I don’t eat talapia.
I knew there was a reason I hated it
Farm fed
Uhhhhhhhh oh. Time for me to decompose the fish out in the back yard. going to have lot of visitors including flies. Eeeeemwwww
Ha bacon is bad as loaded with bad fats. I don’t buy it.
GROW R own animals and GROW YOUR own garden. It’s time to live like the older days. Don’t be lazy, get started and don’t whine.
BS…utter BS
BS utter BS and you know it
No fear Brian :)…just like being proactive and would prefer to live a healthy life void of disease and a cabinet full of medications.
When you hear the same story from different sources and they are saying the same thing take heed
Haven’t had it in 10 years. No farmed fish for my family
Yep…already knew that
Bacon is bad for you?
Bacon is not bad for you.
Read Those Labels! Great to be Informed!
Worse than bacon?? Bacon is the breakfast (or anytime) of champions!!
If all of this food is so bad as long as we been eating IT we would all be dead ijs
Everything has its pros and cons.
Anything farmed is more harmful than anything gathered in the wild. But anything gathered in the wild is more harmful to the planet than anything farmed.
Take your pick. Im going to eat Tilapia but then Im old.
I was hungry. ..but not now.
Baloney. Aquaponics tilapia is very healthy.
But I love bacon!
It is not farm raised fish that are bad…..it is bad farms that raise fish. Try an aquaponically grown tilapia and your views will change.
It’s the farm raised
I don’t buy Farm raised or any fish that was Caught outside of the USA… lol
Yup….
Yuk, too soft
Wish these people would make up their friggin minds about crap. Going with what mom and dad fed me as a kid and pond fresh or lake fresh fish.
Interesting. I don’t trust the source so will have to look into this more. I tend to avoid farmed fish anyway.
Anything sourced in Asia is garbage. I suggest buying wild caught when available. It costs more, but the quality is superior. I don’t eat meat/seafood so it’s no loss for me.
Always knew that it tasted nasty
Heck yeah, bacon a lot better
Nitrate free organic bacon rocks!
Actually bacon in moderation is not bad for you.