Last week my husband and I watched a nature video about the coastline ecosystems (one of the David Attenbrough ones). Then a few days later I noticed one of my co-workers eating tuna casserole leftovers for lunch. It had been so long since I ate tuna casserole, and I had had a rough day, so on an impulse, on my lunch break, I went to a nearby store and bought a can of the solid white albacore tuna. I went home and cooked the pasta, made the sauce and ended up with a nice, (still lowfat) tuna casserole. As soon as I said grace and scooped the tuna casserole onto my plate, I remembered the nature video we had watched and the way it mentioned that the tuna fisheries were over harvested. I pulled out my phone an googled, "sustainable tuna fishing" but there was only articles about how tuna were over-fished and that tuna populations were on the verge of collapse. Suddenly the tuna casserole didn't taste so good to me.
I didn't become "mostly vegan" for moral reasons. We did it because my husband's doctor recommended it to lower his dangerously high blood pressure and cholesterole levels (and it has done both those, praise God). But I find myself gradually becoming more of a moral vegan. I like tuna and I love salmon, but I can't justify using wild caught animals for food. Farmed meat is in a different category in my mind. But there are too many of us on this earth to eat wild caught meat. I think I won't be buying and eating tuna any more. I think I will only be eating "farmed" seafood like tillapia, or farmed salmon if I eat any seafood at all. What little we have left of animals in their natural habitat needs to be preserved, not exploited. I don't have to go out hunting to eat.
