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Default fish vs other seafood

brooklyn1 wrote:
> "James" > wrote in message
> ...
>> I understand eating fish is healthy.

>
> Not for the fish. The word you want is *healthful*
>
> Is this also true of other
>> seafood? I'd rather eat raw oysters, lobsters and crabs than just
>> fish.

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> Eating raw crustaceans is pretty gross.
>
> Bivalves are likely to contain harmful bacteria.
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> However finned fish are just as chemically contaminated as shell fish, and
> in fact oily fish are far more contaminated.
>


Everything in the ocean is affected by pollution.Levels of contamination
are higher in those sea creatures who live longer and which are higher
up the food chain.