O/T Seaspiracy

Who has watched this?

I (did) eat a fair bit of seafood and I have to say I am a bit shocked by the docu-movie. So I did a bit of research today and the seafood store I usually get my fish from and I discovered that all of my fish I buy from there is farmed. I was really really surprised by this, but now I realise I was basically duped by branding and marketing. The farmed fish is pretty bad for one of my kids as she is coeliac and the feed has very high levels of gluten in it. So I tried to source a new store in an area with a hell of a lot of fish shops that only sold hand caught fish. Wow it was difficult. I did find one with some hand caught fish. I strongly recommend that you watch the program and draw your own conclusions.

QP.

I also did not realise just how much pollution is caused by fishing nets. The movie stated 46% of plastic pollution in the sea I think. Online research states a lot less than that but still 10%.

Next time you buy fish ask a lot of questions. It seems beef is not so bad after all!

Not something I've watched, but the mention of coeliac made me wonder what it's like getting GF food over there? Is much of it bland and vastly overpriced like a lot of it is over here?

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Originally Posted by Elite_Pie

Not something I've watched, but the mention of coeliac made me wonder what it's like getting GF food over there? Is much of it bland and vastly overpriced like a lot of it is over here?

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No its really good actually especially where we live. The Sunny Coast is moderately alternative with a lot of health food based places which means loads of decent gluten free stuff. Of course the super markets are full of the usual bland stuff that is sugar coated to make it taste better. Food here is very expensive generally as you would probably expect. When I moved here it was a lot cheaper than the UK but but not any more. You should watch the program above. I am not a greenie by any respect but I've done a fair bit of my own research yesterday and the message is largely correct it seems. I do find breakfast options when going out are better for GF than dinner though, but we have loads of Thais which are generally gluten free anyway other than breads and most of the indians are as well other than the breads.

Bread is the big, big issue with me. Some of the GF breads here cost seven times as much as proper bread and taste like you're chewing sawdust. A 400g GF loaf costs as much as £3.50, while Aldi sell a nice 800g wholemeal or 50/50 loaf for 49p! I've resorted to baking my own, and after much experimentation I can do a passable (no better) loaf using a blend of GF plain flour and rice flour. I'm lucky in that I was diagnosed late in life and I'm asymptomatic, so I can eat gluten without showing any reaction, but in the long term it won't do my digestive system any good. Some only need to eat a single crumb of wheat bread to become violently ill.

I watched Seaspiracy earlier this week. Absolutely shocking viewing. Very disturbing but well worth a watch.

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Originally Posted by Elite_Pie

Bread is the big, big issue with me. Some of the GF breads here cost seven times as much as proper bread and taste like you're chewing sawdust. A 400g GF loaf costs as much as £3.50, while Aldi sell a nice 800g wholemeal or 50/50 loaf for 49p! I've resorted to baking my own, and after much experimentation I can do a passable (no better) loaf using a blend of GF plain flour and rice flour. I'm lucky in that I was diagnosed late in life and I'm asymptomatic, so I can eat gluten without showing any reaction, but in the long term it won't do my digestive system any good. Some only need to eat a single crumb of wheat bread to become violently ill.

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Agreed on the bread. I am all good with gluten but my youngest is diagnosed coeliac and gets crook as a dog if she has any. My Mrs fortunately is a quite wonderful cook on the GF front. We also don't shop at Supermarkets for bread and fresh produce mainly markets although I guess that is not currently an option in the UK. We have discovered some great locally made GF turkish breads. The supermarket stuff is plain awful and around $7 for a small loaf compared to probably $2 for a decent loaf of the gluten stuff and its simply better not to buy it. Skips a generation the GF on my wives side and after we found out that our daughter had the issue my mother in law got tested as she had all sorts of weird health stuff going on and found out she was as well. Since then she has been right as rain. I am not sure if that is a good thing or a bad thing!

Watched part of it today QP...nothing will change though; too many big toes ($$$$$$$$$$$$$$) to be stepped on. If Ali carries on rocking the boat, he’ll be joining the pilot whales. Anyway I had some hand-line caught, mercury laden mackerel today; vastly underrated fish.

My Daughter has been on at me to watch this for a week or so now. Just finished watching it, and I must say it’s a well done piece. Certainly makes you think about where the food comes from and the conditions it endures. I would recommend watching it.

https://www.theguardian.com/environm...y-participants

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Originally Posted by SwingateUnited

https://www.theguardian.com/environm...y-participants

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The article quotes Professor Callum Roberts of Exeter University. No wonder we’ve hardly seen him this season.....