No mention in the article whether the occurrence has changed over time.
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Why carnists should care...
The presence of parasites in fish poses a serious health problem. Some parasites exhibit zoonotic behavior, potentially harming human health if ingested. Furthermore, the presence of parasites in fish reduces the commercial value of the product, leading to considerable economic losses.
Article fails to mention that these fish are typically deep frozen, which kills the parasites. And not all fish parasites infect humans.
This is concerning, but those are important to consider.
Yup, they're flash frozen pretty soon after catch. Anything lingering will be killed by cooking.
Wild animals carry disease. Who knew!
Why I tagged as #epidemic 😁
pylova&piefed instances can tag posts& comments to find them later. For paper posts like these, it makes it easier to describe the essences of the papers.
For a big fish, it's how many parasite they have not if there's one or not. When you're a giant fish the number matters. The article mostly talks about possible allergic reactions to some of the parasite antigens which can persist after the parasite is killed by freezing.
See, the parasite is killed by freezing, but you're still eating dead parasite bodies. That's what really gives fish it's flavour. Fish is uniformly tasteless, but ... parasites! Sorry, Big Fin, I had to expose the conspiracy.
Is that remarkable? The authors make the prevalence of parasites as the big takeaway from their study, but bizarrely they don't cite any other papers of typical parasite load in this fish species or others. I need a frame of reference.
I think most fish have parasites???
You don't know what you think?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Question_mark
How does a question mark indicate not knowing something????
If I liked seafood, I'd be making excuses for why it's okay for me to eat seafood.
Glad I don't like seafood.
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