Fish stories to Robin

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I heard from someone who had Amma's darshan that she eats

fish.. if so, it relates to that..

In Ammachi, Robin Wilson <lilymoonjewel> wrote:

>

> Yes yes yes thank you!!!! Im so bored Im sorry no offense to

anyone...

> rosebud1082001 <rosebud1082001> wrote:ONS

>

> With all due respect, this is very interesting, but I don't

understand

> how it is related to Amma or to spirituality. I also don't

understand

> how a discussion of various cooking oils, interesting as it is,

> relates to the intended purpose of this list. Maybe I am missing

> something? It is all Mother's game, but.....

>

> Ammachi, "letmesowlove27" <letmesowlove27> wrote:

> > FISH STORIES

> >

> >

> > http://www.pisces.co.uk

> > http://groups.msn.com/madfish9

> > http://www.nofishing.net

> > /messages/fishesrights

> >

> >

> > a. A man took his daughters fishing in Tampico Bay in Mexico..

and

> > was spiked by a large catfish who severed his hand artery. He was

> > able to get medical attention for the profuse bleeding

> > before he bled to death.

> > b. Janet B, a NY editor, went fishing and caught

> > a hook in the fish' eye. That is her last day fishing.

> > c. PW, at the Soldier and Sailors' Home in Washington, catches

the

> > same fish out of the pond virtually every day for 10 years.. each

> > time pulling the hook from the throat.. sometimes with flesh

> > attached. PW died of throat cancer. (The child of a well=known

> > presidential candidate went to a hospital to be treated for his

> > flyfishing hook which was imbedded in his nose.) Ramakrishna died

> > of throat cancer after telling his followers it was ok to eat

> > fish.

> > d. St. Blaze is considered by Catholics the patron saint of

> > protection

> > from fishbyproducts since he is said to protect the lives of

those

> > choking on fish bones.

> > e. One national cancer association reports that fish consumption

is

> > related to stomach cancer.. those countries with the highest fish

> > consumption having the highest rates. Included are Korea, Japan,

> > Chile,

> > Norway and others.

> > f. The EPA issues 3500 warnings against fish consumption in one

year

> > alone.. because of high levels of pcb's (polychlorinated

biphenols),

> > arsenic, chromium, mercury, lead, atrazine, and other herbicides

or

> > insecticides turning male fish and frogs

> > into females.)

> > g. One fisherman reports that after seeing the fishes gasp for

air in

> > the bottom of his boat.. as they slowly suffocate.. he will never

> > fish again.

> > h. Syndee Brinkman: I went snorkeling and saw how gently the fish

> > welcomed us into their world.. and how violently we welcomed them

> > into ours.. I never ate an animal or fish again.

> > i. EB was a fisherman all his life and lived into his mid

nineties.

> > He stopped fishing after he dreamt one night that he was tiny and

a

> > fish

> > was very large. The fish had him on a hook.

> > The sale of fish brings 54 million to the state of Maryland,

whose

> > governor has just prevailed on 3 chains in the Washington area to

> > begin again to sell Chesapeake fish despite the pfiesteria

disease.

> > One factor of many in the disease of the fish might be the

Calvert

> > Cliffs nuclear power plant, which raises the temperature of the

water

> > in the area.

> > j. NPR caller, Oct 27, 97: My mother never got to see the same

> > military

> > MD twice, so it was years before medical detectives realized that

her

> > Saturday headaches were caused by her Friday fisheating with an

> > allergy

> > to iodine.

> > k. NPR November 6, 1997: Dr. James Porter of the Univ. of Athens

at

> > Georgia is studying the many new fishes diseases such as black

band

> > and white pox. He says that increased shipping, increased

pollution,

> > and overfishing (perhaps an oxymoron) are factors for the rise.

> > In one year, says the EPA, the coral diseases have quadrupled.

> > Snorkelers

> > are advised that coral is not a dead rock but a colony of living

> > animals

> > and therefore asked not to remove them.

> > l. U.S. News and World Report Nov 24, 1997: One of the strains

> > causing

> > food poisoning in shellfish is Vibria Vulnificus.

> > m. The phrase 'fresh fish' is an oxymoron.

> > n. Prince Philip is one of many in a coalition concerned about

> > fisheries

> > exhaustion. NPR in May reported that many penguin babies are

> > expected

> > to die because there are not enough fishes for them to eat.

Whether

> > one

> > eats fishes or does not, the dying fisheries need to be

restocked.

> > o. There have been many fraternity house deaths from choking in

an

> > attempt

> > to swallow live goldfish and other fish. (May God bless those

souls.)

> > p. Many fishermen and women have drowned, e.g. Jerry Garcia's

father.

> > q. 150,000 turtles drown every year in shrimp nets, says Eric

Bates

> > of the Texas Observer (For the article write Manny Pastreich

> > mpastreich@c...) There are also over 100,000 dolphins

> > caught

> > in tuna fish and other nets, and many whales are caught in

lobster

> > lines.

> > Lisa Simpson of the Simpsons rescued a fish caught in a 6 pack

> > plastic

> > holder and threw him back into the water.

> > For information on how ocean birds are harmed by fishes' nets

> > write 100302.1616@c...

> > r. While the UNFAO The United Nations Food and Agriculture

> > Organization

> > says the oceans are dying and there are not enough fishes for

those

> > who want to eat them, the Dept. of Interior in July sponsored a

week

> > of fishing. http://www.fao.org

> > s. The Texas Dept. of Health states that 245 people have been

victims

> > of

> > illness from oysters in Galveston Bay. The bacterium is Vibrio

> > parahaemolyticus. 208 people have had oyster illness in the

> > Northwest.

> > t. The Oklahoma Dept. of Env. Quality has asked pregnant women to

> > avoid

> > catfish in certain parts of Oklahoma because of high insecticide

> > content

> > in the waters and in the fishes. (JanaWilson@a...)

> > u. With asbestos in Lake Michigan, pcb's in the livers of polar

bears

> > in Alaska, oyster contamination in the Gulf from the runoff of

> > the Mississippi, lipophilic insecticides in Lake Erie, pfiesteria

> > in the Atlantic seaboard ..arsenic, chromium and mercury, pcb's,

> > insecticides, fish killing old oil and every other toxin in the

> > oceans,

> > shellfish in the NE

> > eating unprocessed human waste, where is there fresh fish?

> > Farmed salmon in the NW, says an NPR guest on Feb 24th, can be

> > released

> > into the wild exploding new bacteriae into the ocean.

> > v. Arsenic poisoning (arsenic from the oceans is concentrated in

the

> > flesh of fishes) creates lesions and warts on the hands. NPR

> > reported

> > on Dec 29, 1998 that many million in Bangladesh are dying of

arsenic

> > poisoning from its concentration in well water, and in water of

the

> > delta.

> > w. Dr. Owen Parrett, MD has spoken of the worms present in Rocky

Mtn.

> > trout. In Dec of 98, AP reported on a parasite worm affecting

many

> > trout in Colorado, Idaho, Montana etc. The parasite causes the

fishes

> > to turn in circles until they die.

> > x. Government recalls in Jan 99 18,000 lbs of Hansung salted

yellow

> > croaker because of fear of deadly botulism.

> > y. An El Cajon California man reports that lightning struck

> > the metal poles (hooks and wires also?) of his group's lightning

> > rod fishing poles. They abandoned their fishing that day.

> > Campaign For the Abolition of Angling pisces@p...

> > is an international organization working to end the cruelty of

> > fish suffocation and fish throat ripping.

> > z. A young girl goes fishing in a lake.. and pulls her fish in

> > quickly..

> > he hangs choking from a tree branch.

> > z1 A shrimp man has a captive shrimp caught in the hair of his

> > armpit.

>

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