Do Your Own Research to Save the Markets

Shawshank, VA 5/9/2011 (PennyPayDay) -- After the detection of an oil spill on April 22, 2010, the southern United States went through a battle due to seafood pricing. Restaurants began to overstock, believing that there would be a shortage. The companies began to raise their prices due to supply and demand.

However compared to the devastation that presented itself to Japan, the BP oil spill becomes such a small bleep on the radar of hardship. After media beefed up their stories to present it in such a distraught and horrible way, the oil spill has become a thing of the past as Japan emerges as the newest heartbreak of the world. The damage in Japan has once again united us like the times after Hurricane Katrina.

The seafood markets in Japan are failing because of the same problems in the US, media coverage.

The scare of nuclear radiation has caused a bad reputation to cloud the minds of consumers all over. Instead of doing our research, we instead take the easier way out harming those whom feed their families, and provide shelter using our business.

Instead of just focusing on the radiation scare, I want to point out other factors you should fear.

So how about Ciguatera?

Many people are not aware of this type of food poisoning that is common. Dinoflagellates are these little algae-like organisms which created a toxin by the name of ciguatoxin. This toxin travels through the food chain as small fish eat the algae and bigger fish eat the small fish.

If this happens enough then the larger fish can have enough of this toxin to make a human sick when it eats the fish. Ciguatoxin is also a “heat stable” toxin which allows it to remain just as effective no matter if you burn the fish to a crisp.

So, whenever you buy fish, instead of just considering what kind of harmful things the media has covered, do your own research. By doing so, you will be providing yourself with facts instead of relying on the research of others that is then stripped of any detail which maybe “boring” and not of “newsworthiness”.

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