Re: Whole Baby Clams Versus Sardines




"Mr-Natural-Health" <johngohde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1138488398.105642.250450@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Neryl Chyphes wrote: 
"Mr-Natural-Health" <johngohde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>...
> And, the people who love to eat RAW oysters are absolutely nuts!!!
>
> Oysters, just like clams, are bottom dwellers full of reprocessed
> sewage and garbage.

Wrong on this. Oysters are not bottom dwellers. They are tidal zone dwellers. 

Ooooh! As if the totally obvious is anything but obvious?

http://www.nap.edu/books/0309090520/html/60.html
"Oysters are members of the family Ostreacea, class Bivalvia, in the
phylum Mollusca. Under the current systematic schema, most commercially
important species are classified in three major genera: Ostrea,
Saccostrea, and Crassostrea and a number of minor genera (Carriker and
Gaffney, 1996). Adults are intertidal and subtidal bottom dwellers
found worldwide. Most oyster species form the basis of local fisheries
or aquaculture operations."


Partially corrected. There are oysters not attached to hard surfaces in the tidal
zone. But guess what, the vast majority of oyster fishing involves harvesting
the tidal zone! Plenty of those fisheries around here...

People who eat RAW oysters should be eating live ones. If they aren't live,
then I'd agree that the eaters are nuts, and likely to get sick.

BTW: I don't eat oysters, but that's because I don't like them!

Chypho... 

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