Thread: The Trouble with Fish Oil (Omega 3's)

Originally Posted by Xei

Implying that the carp are not natural..?

If you thought nature was about stability or even benevolence, you are sorely mistaken. Nature is apathetic and anarchic. If there is a superior species, the fate of the lesser species is oblivion, not symbiosis. The existing life on Earth is the 1% that was able to drive the remaining 99% to extinction. Although of course, if a species is too aggressive, it'll soon have nothing to eat and its population will crash until the old species have recovered.

I see two problems with ths. First, nature is full of examples of symbiosis. Failure to enter into beneficial symbiosis could be viewed as a cause of extinction in some cases. Second, saying that evolution behaves one way means that we should is not right. We should definitely be aware of how this stuff works but it has to be up to us to determine what we want to do and then do it. "Self determination" is one of the primary mechanisms by which we view ourselves as The Magic Monkey That Lives at The Center of The Universe and Sweats Axe Body Spray. E.g. We went out into the hostile world and "domesticated" other species instead of entering into a symbiosis as equals. While its true that our changes are memetic and not genetic, they are just as irrevocable. Emmer wheat domesticated us just as much as we domesticated it.

"Driven by the same natural forces as any other organism" is more like a normal stupid hairy monkey with all the toppings when it comes to "intelligence". If we want to be the former than we should do that. It sounds nice. Otherwise, why make the pretenses?

You'll do yourself a hundred times whatever the benefit is by eating well and exercising regularly

I challange you to name a serious, non-vegetarian dietician that doesn't say that cold water fish is one of the best meats that you can get with any concerns being over heavy metals that didn't used to be there.