By Jason Witt
When you receive the Seal you begin to care about your health. You may want to eat more seafood, since it is so good for you. Unfortunately if your fish is from China the health problems likely outweigh the benefits.
China is the only country in the world to "farm" more fish than it gets from fishing in the sea. It has become a big industry, with over 5 million Chinese employed as fish farmers.
But with the boom of the industry came severe pollution. Many fish farms are inland and practically all of those are heavily polluted. The waters of many fish farms are considered unsafe even for people to touch.
The coasts are not much better. Fish farms line the whole eastern coast of China, and the waters there have oil in them. And lead, mercury, and copper. Those are the heavy metals that end up in the fish and then in whoever eats it.
Those heavy metals are toxic to humans. With the explosion in the number of Chinese factories has come an explosion in pollution. Many factories simply dump waste into the water--the same water used for fish farms.
In fact, the water is so polluted in many places that the fish farmers put illegal veterinary drugs in the fish feed just to keep the fish alive until they can sell them. These drugs are also toxic for human consumption.
Many of the fish farms were originally founded by the Japanese or with Japanese money. And much of this fish feeds the Chinese or Japanese. But China farms so much fish that it is sold to the West too.
This is a serious problem and is one the United States and European Union are watching. Just like the factories, the fish farms themselves have no waste disposal and their waste stays in the water indefinitely.
The fish are always sick in those polluted waters. The fish become distressed all the time because they are sick enough to die, and reportedly many of the fish go insane too.
So the fish farmers use veterinary drugs and also antibiotics and pesticides. Regular farming, you say? Not at all. Often these drugs are illegal and in the West where they do screening they are catching large numbers of illegal shipments.
So the aquaculture waters have rotting fish feed, fish feces, and the drugs and chemicals in them. And those drugs and chemicals are illegal for a reason. They have been found to cause cancer and other ailments.
China produces more than two-thirds of all the fish farmed anywhere in the world. Yet in 2007 43 shipments of fish were rejected by the FDA in the US for the first 11 months of the year.
China has exploded in economic growth. But measures to sustain the environment are usually nonexistent. Without being sustained, the environment is already polluted so much it is unsafe to eat the fish.
When you are sealed you will begin to notice what you eat. You will want to eat healthy, and God will show you how. One of the things you will learn is how good fish is for you.
But seafood supplies worldwide are being used up and fish farming is now where much of the fish comes from, and where it will come from in the future. And if you get your fish from farms in China, you are risking your health instead of benefiting it.
That is not what God showed you. God shows you how to save your life, not to lose it. So you know how to avoid what is hurting you and even threatening your life.
When you are sealed you will take care of your health because God will take care of you. But you need to be aware of what you eat because God wants you to have a long life so you can share with others the gift of the Seal.
| Jason Witt is a sinner healed and sealed. He has been transformed by Jesus, who came and made His Home in Jason's heart and in his mind. Come and see what Jesus foretold that is starting to happen today. Jason Witt dot org |
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