This month everyone who’s anyone is singing tilapia’s praises in celebration of Earth Day. It’s sustainable and delicious. Check out all these great reasons to eat a fish today!
The Mouth of Tampa Bay likes farm raised tilapia for its efficient use of resources!
And when buying fish, choose low-on-the-food-chain species like farm-raised tilapia, which provides more protein than it takes to raise it. (By contrast, farm-raised tuna or salmon eat far more protein than their own final weight).
Forest Street Kitchen is adding tilapia to her grocery list as part of Eight Green Steps.
My sources tell me that it is environmentally unsound to buy or order: Chilean sea bass, swordfish, and ahi tuna. It’s okay to eat Tilapia, wild salmon (especially Alaskan), domestic mahi mahi, Pacific halibut, Pollock, white seabass and sardines, as well as oysters, clams, calamari, and American lobster.
Recapping her year of baby eco-steps, Emily Style reported on the switch to our favorite fishy: tilapia!
We’ve cut back almost all our driving in exchange for walking and biking. Switched from salmon and ahi tuna to mackerel and tilapia. Grown dedicated to our reusable Trader Joe’s grocery bags. Stuck to dishtowels instead of paper towels and started hanging our laundry to dry. Enjoyed nature.
Mother Nature Network gave a thumbs up to farm-raised tilapia.
As for the other fish in the sea, for now, farmed is fine for species like tilapia, char, and catfish that are fed a vegetarian diet and live in brackish water. Wild is preferred for carnivorous fish such as tuna, salmon, halibut, and snapper.
Karley at Chic and Green wrote about how tilapia makes the cut for conscious eating.
I am starting by eliminating all meats other than fish. I do love tilapia and salmon and will continue to eat these. I am not forcing this on anyone in my home. Tom and the boys are free to eat meat if they so desire. The way I see it is that I am so conscientious about the ingredients I put on my skin or in my hair, that it is only natural for me to continue the green shift to my diet.
I knew I loved tilapia, but I never knew I was saving the planet! Sheesh!
Happy reading, and happy eating!
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Tags: chic and green, Earth Day, farm-raised fish, sustainable, Tilapia
