The Trouble With Tilapia

in #tilapia8 years ago

Lately I've come across many articles on different independent news sites about the dangers of eating....Tilapia! I find it disturbing, to be completely honest, that the journalism is completely biased. Tilapia are bottom feeders, tilapia are GMOs, they make you swell, and many other false claims and misinformation. Let's air out some of the dirty laundry, shall we?
There are documented cases of the Chinese using farm raised tilapia under chicken breeding and egg laying pens. Yeah, it's pretty gross. Like most other organisms on our planet, they have a built-in survival instinct, and they only eat it because they're not given a choice! By their very nature, they are plant eaters! Duckweed and Spirulina algea are among their favorite foods. In fact, although they can and will thrive on duckweed alone, their gills have adapted to filter algea from the water as well. This translates into a very pure, very clean food source! In turn, when we farm them in a closed loop system with hydroponics we set up a mutually beneficial relationship between the fish, and the plants. No chemicals needed for either! The fish are potentially more nutritious than ocean caught, seeing as we've poisoned our oceans so badly.
Find out where your food comes from and what it's being forced to live on before believing all the urban legends out there! Only eat farmed tilapia from the U.S. and Canada, and enjoy your high quality protein and beneficial fatty acids.

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Agriscience, is this the science of agriculture? If you have read my posts about your niche market, this sounds like a solid catagory tag; those who create relevant new tags have a new market all to themselves for a time !!!

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Awesome post. I am a fisherman and tell people all the time about this.

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