Raw fish

My friend is pregnant and she told me that she can't eat sashimi - now that is tough! Coffee, alcohol, and other interesting but baby-unfriendly substances, I can pretty much take or leave these days. But sushi? I have managed to give up eating most other forms of flesh since coming to Japan, including horse, whale and sheep, but I love the weekly trip to the rolling sushi. It's so cheap and delicious here. Don't blame the Indonesian fishing industry, the real fault for the Pacific oceans being depeted of tuna lies with my Sunday dinners. I try not to think about that as I hunch over the counter salivating all over my made-from-Chinese-forest-wood-in-spite-of-hideous-
pollution-disposable-chopsticks. Overfishing? Yeah...but it's so buttery...so melt-in-your-mouth...and at 190 yen a plate, it would be rude not to.
My hat goes off to my pregnant friend. Still, that will be all of us in a few decades. In the future, sushi will be a thing of the past for us regular folk. Seafood will only be eaten by a few extremely rich people, once we deplete the oceans to the point where there is no return. We are doing a pretty good job of that right now, and the people living in Japan are doing more than their fair share to help out, being the world’s largest market of raw tuna for sashimi. It's a worrying thought. I think I had better get down to the local and get my fill before it's too late.