One of the best ways to get people to stop eating something is to tell them that it has something bad for them in it.
For some reason, this doesn't seem to work for fish. Lots of fish (especially the top-end popular kinds) have too much mercury in them for safe human consumption.
Mercury is bad for us. Very, very bad.
So we should stop eating popular fish. Now.
Tell Japan.
Large levels of mercury being found in fish
BRI and IPEN found that mercury contamination is worse in some regions than others. For example, the fish in certain spots in Japan and Uruguay is so high that the organizations recommend not consuming it at all. But they also found that mercury contamination is basically everywhere – all over the globe: rivers, lakes, oceans, etc. (Their stated goal though is to reduce this contamination.) What’s more, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 86 percent of the fish we eat is imported.
Mercury Levels in Humans and Fish Around the World Regularly Exceed Health Advisory Levels
Global mercury hotspots
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