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Read this if you eat catfish.
Yesterday, I was tagged to a BBC video that showed Indian authorities destroying many catfish farms and burying hundreds of thousands of fish live. Indian authorities claim the fish caused cancer, amongst other things. I checked the scientific name of the catfish and it's Clarias gariepinus, the most common catfish we farm in Nigeria.
I started digging. I first went to WHO's website and I found out that their cancer agency, IARC, dis not lost Clarias gariepinusas a carcinogen. I felt a wave of relief.
I then went further to find out why the Indian authorities would say that the fish is carcinogenic. The official Indian ban from the late 1990s was first about ecology. Our own African catfish is predatory, invasive, and a threat to their native catfish.
African catfish is extremely hardy. It can live in dirty, low-oxygen water that would kill many other fish. Illegal Indian farms often exploit that: drains, slaughterhouse waste, crowded pits, polluted ponds. In that setting the fish can pick up heavy metals (arsenic, cadmium, lead, chromium, mercury), other industrial pollutants and parasites such as fish lice.
Final verdict: African catfish is not carcinogenic. But if it is raised in unclean and polluted water, it can store heavy metals in its body, which may harm the health of the humans that eat it. Be sure of your catfish supplier. Once they maintain good hygiene and healthy practices, you're good to go.
Unpopular Opinion:
Most people don't choose their religion after studying all religions. They inherit it from their parents, culture and geography.
If you were born in a different country, to different parents, there is a very good chance you would be defending a different religion with the same certainty.
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