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Title: Tilapia raised on feces hits US tables
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URL Source: http://money.msn.com/now/post--tila ... ces-hits-us-tables#scpshrjwfbs
Published: Jul 16, 2013
Author: By Jason Notte
Post Date: 2014-04-03 16:14:54 by X-15
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Views: 183
Comments: 10
As fish go, tilapia's lifestyle leaves much to be desired. They're a "garbage fish" in every sense of the word. They can survive in hopelessly polluted environments, they can be bred and raised in garbage cans and, when necessary, can subsist on a diet of other animals' excrement. It makes Tilapia so easily farmed that Americans eat close to 500 million pounds of it a year, according to the Department of Agriculture, or more than four times the amount of Tilapia they ate a decade ago. It also makes it bland and not particularly healthy for you. When its diet consists of manure, however, it's basically like feeding them salmonella and E.coli. Michael Doyle, director of the Center for Food Safety at the University of Georgia, notes that the large amount of antibiotics that are given to the fish to ward off infections from the manure -- which is used as a cheap alternative to fish feed -- makes the strains of salmonella and E.coli those fish catch extremely hard to eliminate. "While there are some really good aquaculture ponds in Asia, in many of these ponds -- or really in most of these ponds -- it's typical to use untreated chicken manure as the primary nutrition," he told MSN News. "In some places, like Thailand for example, they will just put the chickens over the pond and they just poop right in the pond." That's creating antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria, but it's also creating problems for U.S. eaters who get 82% of their Tilapia from China. Last month it was announced that production of farmed fish had overtaken farmed beef for the first time in recorded history. Large amounts of that production come from farms like those featured in Bloomberg's October piece, titled simply "Asian seafood raised on pig feces approved for U.S. consumers." According to Bloomberg, 27% of seafood consumed in in the United States comes from China, and yet the FDA only inspects 2.7% of the fish that gets imported. Of the fish inspected, the FDA has reportedly rejected 820 Chinese seafood shipments since 2007, including 187 that contained tilapia. Yet Tilapia is so cheap and plentiful that it's popularity is still growing among American consumers despite its negligible health benefits. With that in mind, the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch program suggests buyers consider the source of their Tilapia before making a purchase. While Tilapia raised in the U.S., Canada and Ecuador all pass muster, those from China and Taiwan are iffy alternates. Poster Comment: Mmmm........
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#1. To: X-15 (#0)
Damn! aren't there any American tilapia growers? I'd rather not eat shit, but we do love our tilapia...gak. “The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
You'll have to read the fine print on the origin from now on. "Made In China" should be the epitaph of every pol in D.C., they approve of this shit along with poison toothpaste/dog food/chicken from the Chi-Coms.
#2. To: Lod (#1)
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#3. To: X-15 (#0)
I prefer fresh catch dorado. Mahi mahi.
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#4. To: Rotara (#3)
I won't eat anything out of the Pacific, or east of the BP debacle in the Gulf...shit may be better for us.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
#5. To: Lod (#4)
Lake Superior is pretty clean, I understand. Don't know if you can get it down in TX, but the whitefish is excellent. I'm not much of a seafood afficianado, but I could definitely tell the difference between fish from Superior and L Michigan.
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#6. To: Dakmar (#5)
Lake Erie walleye or bluegill and largemouth bass from my pond is it for me. Nothing from any oceans or seas if I can help it.
Support bacteria.
(The world needs more culture)
#7. To: Obnoxicated (#6) (Edited)
Bluegill is tasty, has Erie made that much of a recovery? If so, that's great. I will never forget the pictures of the Cuyahoga burning. For those of you not from the midwest, that's a river. Yes, a river, full of water (ostensibly), actually went up in flames. Crappie is another good fish, my Papaw used to take us out on the reservoir and we would catch a mess of them. It took 2 or 3 fish each just to know you had eaten anything, but they tasted great.
corruptissima re publica plurimae leges - Tacitus
#8. To: Lod (#4)
Jim's buys theirs from Viet Nam--it's farm raised. Since I learned that, I've not ordered it.
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#9. To: X-15 (#0)
Shrimp from parts of the orient also raised on poop. Composted cattle manure great fertilizer. Mushrooms thrive on horse manure.
#10. To: X-15 (#0)
I won't eat catfish or mullet for the same reason---shit eaters
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