As a speceis, we don't seem to understand the concept of taking just what we need, instead of abusing the recource. Two reasons I don't bu cod, flavorless, and way over fished. In my neck of the woods, it is perch and smelt, and lake trout. Not only do they suffer from invasive speceis, but over fishing as well. The smelt used to run so heavy in the spring that one scoop of a dip net would nearly fill a 5 gallon bucket. People would fill the beds of their pickup truck, or garbage cans with the tasty little fish, and use them for fertilizer in their gardens. Now, you can still dip for them in the spring, but it takes hours to fill a 5 gallon pail, and that's all you're allowed.
I almost think that we, as humans, shoulld just quit fishing for a couple of years, and let the water creatures have a chance to come back. But that, of course won't happen. To satisfy demand, we now have farmed fish and seafood, which is usually no healthy to consume. Norway, China, and Canada are famous for substandard fish raised in fish farms. I wonder when we will wake up.
I also avoid certain brands of food because of their busines practices. Their iw a well known bui
ness that pulls ground water from one of the premier gound water tables in Michigan, a water table that feeds on of our nationion's primium trout streams. They get the water for nothing, bottle it, and ship it all over the world for profit. Their short term profit is depleting a natural resource that has been a treasure in Michigan forever. Ok, I'll quite ranting now.
