responsible eating
as i have said before, in the past half year or so, my eating habits have shifted a bit. i find myself eating a whole lot less meat and as it turns out, a whole lot more seafood.
the other night i found myself at a work dinner in a real serious steak house that a year ago would have been a dream come true, but this time i had trouble identifying anything i wanted on the menu. a steak still sounds good to me sometimes, but not at 8:30 at night when i had a tough workout the next morning and an early day at work.
fish. light, healthy, delicious.
there were two fish choices: chilean seabass and farm raised salmon. salmon is so…not blahh, but nothing special either these days. i mean, i LOVE salmon, but i just don’t need to order it at a restaurant, you know? and to be honest, i have no idea what salmon farms are feeding those hungry fish, how sustainable the salmon feed is. the seabass sounded AWESOME. but as i sat at a table of fish experts, i quickly learned it was at the top of the list of over-fished seafood. then i realized i had never REALLY thought about that sort of thing.
as my seafood consumption goes up, my knowledge of what i’m eating needs to go up. the more we learn the more we know.
the monteray bay aquarium has developed a series of seafood watch pocket guides organized by region that are updated frequently. it also provides a national pocket guide and a sushi pocket guide.
i printed out the national guide and sushi guide and stuck ‘em in my wallet. a quick glance told me i don’t always make the most sustainable decisions at the market or at the dinner table, so hopefully i’ll make some positive adjustments with these to my shopping and eating.
