287437 Wed Aug 01 23:23:52 -0700 2001 4 27 General Chowhounding Topics 0 1546138 This article appeared in today's San Francisco Chronicle. I know many food-lovers HATE to dwell on food health or safety issues and probably almost as many don't want to hear their favorite seafood items may be in danger of extinction or of causing pollution, but I share this in hope some of your "better natures" will prevail over the "pleasure principle." Link: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/08/01/FD144241.DTL Wed Aug 01 23:23:52 -0700 2001 0 Fine 1 1546153 Thanks for the link. Interesting piece. As for the better natures of food-lovers overcoming the pleasure principle, I gather from discussions on these boards that many of us who "live to eat" also care very much about the environmental/health impact of our choices. I thought the writer gave a balanced presentation of how different issues affect one's choices. I would expect Chez Panisse to select from unendangered species or from species that are not fished in an environmentally unsound way. And I'd also assume that their business isn't hurt at all by the absence of Chilean sea bass on the menu. But I also understand the decision by the fishmonger who must stock what his customers want to buy if he's going to make a living. Who knows, perhaps this very article will change some of his customers' preferences. Thu Aug 02 09:46:12 -0700 2001 1546138 0 Dee Gustay 2 1546195 Concur "Chilean Sea Bass" (Patagonian toothfish) is my fiances favorite. When we learned that it was being overfished we stopped buying it. There are simply to many other options for us to contribute the the overfishing of that species. Jaques Pepin made a recent plee to lay off Belegu Sturgeon too. They are also overfished. Chow!!! Fri Aug 03 01:39:37 -0700 2001 1546153 0 Brandon Nelson 1 1546180 The Monterey bay aquarium has its Seafood Watch "cheat sheet" online Link: http://www.montereybayaquarium.com/efc/efc_oc/dngr_food_watch.asp Thu Aug 02 16:06:55 -0700 2001 1546138 0 Caitlin McGrath 1 1546200 Someone should come up with an e-mail based awareness/boycott program based on the Responsible Choices network model for this issue. Fri Aug 03 08:45:05 -0700 2001 1546138 0 Roger Lee