Tilapia or Bacon: Which is Worse?
Hi friends. Lucy here. You might remember I was in a quandary about what my job would be, since church dog and dog groomer didn’t quite work out. In case you haven’t noticed, I have decided to be a reporter, specifically working the groom beat. Now I am adding the Friday Food for Thought beat to my job, giving Mom more time to groom and eat and other stuff.
In today’s edition of Friday Food for Thought, we will look at Bad Fish. They might have been very good fish when they were alive, but dead they are ready and waiting to poison you with everything from chicken poop to pesticides and antie bio ticks. I think it’s fun to read stuff with pictures, so take a gander at this!
Go here to read the whole article, with info on what fish are safe, why shrimp are the worst possible fish to eat, and how to be smart when ordering or buying fish in stores and restaurants.
I hope you liked my first edition of Food for Thought. (I know Mom’s done this before, but it is my first time.)
Love and Wiggles from Ace Reporter Lucy on the Food beat.
27 thoughts on “Friday Food for Thought”
Tails Around the Ranch
Canine-grats on the new job, Lucy. 💖 I wondered about tilapia and tried it once. Blech. Worst fish I’ve ever eaten. But I hear it’s amazing as a treatment for burn victims and know they’ve successfully used it on many critter casualties in the California wildfires.
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Xena and Lucy
Aw, poor anipals. So they slap a fish on them when they get burned??? Lucy
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Tails Around the Ranch
They use fish skin. Check out this story: https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/01/california-thomas-fire-bear-cougar-paw-burn-tilapia-fish-skin-bandage-spd/
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Xena and Lucy
We did…amazing!
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Tails Around the Ranch
Here’s another story about it: https://ktla.com/2018/01/24/bears-burned-in-thomas-fire-treated-with-fish-skin-released-back-into-wild/
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Idaho PugRanch
thank you for this interesting report. Mom eats tilapia, she is going to have to check the package
hugs
hazel & Mabel
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Xena and Lucy
Tilapia almost always = Bad Fish. Fresh caught salmon from the Pacific is the best. Lucy ❤
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Marsha Gay
Thanks for the information. I have never had fish of any kind. I don’t think I am missing anything.
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Xena and Lucy
Mom has had fish and she agrees that you are not missing anything.Just be sure to get your Omega’s from somewhere else, like krill oil. 🙂 (I do.) Lucy
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Toni
Oh Lucy,
What perfect timing you have (and great reporting skills too) I just got back from the store and brought home a can of sardines in soy oil for the dogs! The lady that recommended them said that is what gives her dog that had a couple of spots of what looked like small white scabs, She said she hasn’t had a ,problem since she gave her dog sardines and her coat is really shiny now too.
Now I have to research Sardines…….Thanks for keeping me on my toes.
Granny T
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Xena and Lucy
Hi Miss Toni. Mom says soy is bad, ’cause it is GMO. And sardines are ok in small quantities because they are little and don’t eat all the other fish that have mercury in them, like big fishies do. (She has read more about it than me.) ~Lucy
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The Gang at LLB
Great report Lucy! We don’t eat fish here…Arty is allergic, Dad doesn’t like it..Mama eats freshly caught fish when she goes out to dinner!
xoxo,
Rosy, Jakey & Arty
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Xena and Lucy
Hi Arty, Jakey and Rosy. Mom doesn’t eat fish, either. And Dad is very careful about what fish he eats, too. XOX Lucy
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Photofinland by Rantasalot
Lucy, you wrote very important things and you wrote well. These farmed fishes are not for eating, and what is life in a fish farm. It is not a good life for fishes who should swim in big ocean in fresh water, it is only suffering. I believe every animal is worth good living. It’s so wrong just to be born to suffer and then to be killed.
Hugs to Lucy!
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Xena and Lucy
You are right. Maybe I’ll report on chicken farms next. 🤔 Lucy
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BellaDharma's LadyMew
**apawsss apawsss**
You have dun marveeluss Lucy on yore ferst ree-port!! LadyMew shared with mee shee once treid Tilapee-a an shee spitted it out an wuud NOT touch another bite. Shee iss no longer frendss with THE purrson who served her that butt shee said fish tasted like sumthin on bottom of a shoe…..eeeeewwww…..
An shee red yore list an said to let you know shee needss wild caught HADDOCK onlee! Ane mee Salmon pate iss wild too!!
***purrsss*** BellaDharma
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Xena and Lucy
Your LadyMew is smart! Lucy
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philosophermouseofthehedge
Yet another reason to follow the bears and malamutes/huskies to fresh water during the runs…and have a big freezer. (Farm raised fish give me the creeps. More and more difficult to source healthy foods)
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Xena and Lucy
And I hear you have to be careful of mercury in wild caught fish, especially tuna.
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philosophermouseofthehedge
True. Tuna is a big worry. You do the best you can. We do n to eat fish caught in some local areas either. Run salmon run!
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Sandra Hangey
wild clapping for your reporting abilities… you are a nautral reporter. and oh so cute also…..
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Xena and Lucy
Maybe I could go on TV, too. Lucy 🐕
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easyweimaraner
we saw in tv in what swamps some fishies are raised… impossible to buy this fish without thinking about the things we saw. I really wonder that we have 87 rules and regulations for anything but no one cares about such things…
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Xena and Lucy
I know, right?! Lucy
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easyweimaraner
RIGHT… isn’t that weird that we have the mediterranean sea and the ocean in this land and in the stores they sell fishes from absurdistan?
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Yamini Ali MacLean
Hari OM
Yay, well done, Lucy, you are a super repawter!!! Of course, I advocate sticking to vegetables and leave all flesh alone… but even that can be fraught with issues when it comes to sourcing decently grown produce!!! We live a world that has furgotten seasonal, fresh, organic… I look forward to more of your articles giving us ‘food for thought’!!! hugs and wags, YAM-aunty xxx
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Xena and Lucy
*big smile and wags* Lucy
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