…but stayed clothed! ( You thought I was going to be naughty didn’t you! For shame!)
January Jones warms my cold little heat by donating her time as the spokesperson for Oceana in their campaign to protect sharks. She is working to promote The Shark Conservation Act in Congress. You can even view her PSA here!
www.ecorazzi.com
She’s a sweet gal and all…but I am not for the preservation of something that can have me as a mid-morning snack.
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i'm with you, spkaren!!
sharks are incredibly important and to me, they are beautiful animals. they don't prey on people on purpose and i think people forget when that happens, it's because humans have entered THEIR environment. sharks do not have a choice of whether to be on land or in water and they're only doing what is natural to them.
i love january jones even more now for doing this work.
^^ What she said. Couldn't agree more. I think it's very cool that someone from my favorite show is such a passionate supporter of this cause.
Now THIS is hot, unlike those lame-ass artsy-fartsy GQ underpants photos.
Sharks are wonderful, and only a very few of them would be interested in snacking on a Lipp Sister or anyone else. The oceans are in serious peril; some experts say there will be NO MORE FISH in as little as twenty years. Japanese trawlers are traveling as far south as Antarctic waters to get their tuna, which is disappearing rapidly everywhere else. Soon the only thing left in the seas will be trillions of jellyfish, populations of which are exploding.
Sharks are as good a place as any to start the conversation, and Ms. Jones deserves credit for bringing attention to Oceana.
Don't eat any salmon that isn't marked "wild" and "line-caught". Farmed salmon is the worst thing in the world.
Don’t eat any salmon that isn’t marked “wild†and “line-caughtâ€. Farmed salmon is the worst thing in the world.
But then, isn't eating wild salmon just contributing to the overfishing? I swear, there are days when I truly don't know what I'm supposed to eat. I love salmon, and there are times I just stand in front of the fish counter wondering what the right thing to do is. Mr Howell just said at lunch, "maybe we should take up organic farming" (to which I growled back "I think you mean, maybe I should take up organic farming." From the man who hates mud, and hates gardening even more!)
Good for January.
I agree, we shouldn't be killing off the sharks because of the possible imbalance of the ecosystem. We also have to agree that sharks are doing what is natural to them…they don't know whats right and wrong by killing/eating humans.
I'm just wondering if January Jones goes to the beach often or swims. I like to go to the beach, but I don't like swimming in the ocean…I am petrified. I only stay by the shore and wet my feet while my friends are swimming, heh. I want to know how we can protect ourselves just in case we are faced with a shark.
Gypsy, it can be confusing. Monterey Bay Aquarium, aside from being one of the coolest places to spend an afternoon in America, has a great seafood watch program. At the aquarium they hand out these great wallet sized cards which tell you which fish are best choices and which to avoid … but, I checked and their website has a searchable chart as well.
http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/cr/seafoodwatc…
Sharks are super-important to the ecosystem! They are a key top predator for the food chain of the ocean, and killing them has a negative effect on the ecosystem’s balance. They rarely have encounters with people, and are rarely aggressive. It’s important to save more than just the cuddly pandas! I’m excited that she’s bringing light to the issue.
(Just my passionate opinion)
You couldn't be more wrong about sharks. They are absolutely vital to the health of our ecosystem. Eliminate a top predator and the oceans are quickly out of balance. I totally applaud January for what she's doing.
I love that January's doing this! She completely rocks.
Yes, farmed salmon is fed fishmeal. That makes it around 10 times higher in PCB's and dioxin (cancer causing toxins) and very low in omega-3's (one of the main health benefits of salmon). Farmed salmon don't move around much, either, so they're fatter.
The best salmon for you is Alaskan Wild. If you can't find that, Pacific Coast Wild is also great.
"She’s a sweet gal and all…but I am not for the preservation of something that can have me as a mid-morning snack."
To paraphrase Denis Leary, if a roast beef dinner floated through your living room, you'd chow down, too. (Also, the shark she's posing with looks like a dogfish, which don't get much bigger than 2-3 feet long. Most sharks are pretty docile unless provoked, just like any other fish.)
The oceans, and various species that inhabit them, are extremely important for the preservation of an environment hospitable to human life. I'm glad to see Jan's fighting the good fight.
Oh it was a joke! Come on!
Every living organism is essential to our eco-system.
The problems with farmed salmon only start with their health effects on the people who eat them. They also destroy the ecosystem that wild fish depend on. Much of that fishmeal that they eat falls to the bottom, out of their pens and onto the seabed, where it rots, increasing the nitrogen content of the water and leading to anaerobic conditions that kill fish and promote algae. In addition, the farmed fish, which are all Atlantic salmon, frequently escape their pens, threatening the habitat of the native Pacific salmon (completely different genuses).
There's a salmon farm in Puget Sound which is an ecological outrage. It's killing the Sound, which is almost dead already. The fish isn't sold in Washington state, because people here won't eat it; it's frozen and shipped to the middle of the country where people don't know from salmon. Be very careful if you buy salmon in Missouri or Illinois, especially if you shop in a Walmart or other low-price grocery.
Canadian fish is even worse. BC is in some ways more ecologically aware than Washington, but their resource-management practices are appalling. The last place in North America that discharges raw sewage into the ocean is in Victoria, BC.
The Monterey Bay Aquarium card is a good resource, but beware of competitors. There's a controversy going on right now with the World Fisheries Council approving fish farms and harvesting of Pacific hake, both of which are unsupportable by science but strongly desired by corporate interests that are moving in to this certification business (the WFC was founded by Unilever).