I decide today I will go out and eat a fish.

If only I’d known. Eating fish is a political act.

The food cops want me to eat fish, they allege omega 3 in fish will prevent a heart attack. So I start looking for a fine fish place.

But before I can make a reservation, I learn that not only is the great blue fin tuna laced with mercury but all fish has some degree of mercury in them.

As I’m not pregnant nor decrepit, the mercury may not have much effect and in any case I think tuna’s the Wagyu of the oceans, a pink gelatinous lump.

But now the Harvard School of Public Health, the top cop, says I must eat even mercury-laced fish otherwise I might have a heart attack.


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