Something fishy here

[Imsogone]

So the fish we're eating aren't what we've been told they are. Indeed, one type of fish, the escolar, which has made it to many of our tables under false pretenses, can make us sick.

Now I understand that many of you don't like fish, but I love me some seafood - shrimp, lobster, crab, tuna, salmon, clams - you name it. I've chosen to stop eating some of my favorites because they've become endangered - like abalone. Others I won't eat because of heavy metal and toxin issues. But I would at least like to know that when I do eat fish, it's what the label says it is.

I've already pretty much eliminated beef and bison from my diet because I can't be sure of the source or even if it is beef or bison. I've cut down on chicken because I prefer free-range - it tastes better and the bird is actually healthier than factory farmed, but it costs a lot more.

I'm almost ready to turn vegetarian rather than to have to continue to fret about where the meat is coming from, how it's raised and in many cases, what it is. Almost - still have to have my bacon fix.

Are any of you ready to change your eating habits for health/environmental concerns? Have you already? Or are you a committed carnivore?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/2 ... more190588

[Condunum]

I just like meat. I dont care what it is as long as i'm told the truth. Even then, I often don't care.

[Blazedtown]

If you worry about where you're meat comes from, then go hunting. You want fresh meat, imagine venison that was running in a field less than a day before.

[Condunum]

If you worry about where you're meat comes from, then go hunting. You want fresh meat, imagine venison that was running in a field less than a day before.

No. Don't hunt. For god sakes, don't hunt.

You can never break fee from the addictively sweet taste of deer

[Dyakovo]

So the fish we're eating aren't what we've been told they are. Indeed, one type of fish, the escolar, which has made it to many of our tables under false pretenses, can make us sick.

Now I understand that many of you don't like fish, but I love me some seafood - shrimp, lobster, crab, tuna, salmon, clams - you name it. I've chosen to stop eating some of my favorites because they've become endangered - like abalone. Others I won't eat because of heavy metal and toxin issues. But I would at least like to know that when I do eat fish, it's what the label says it is.

I've already pretty much eliminated beef and bison from my diet because I can't be sure of the source or even if it is beef or bison. I've cut down on chicken because I prefer free-range - it tastes better and the bird is actually healthier than factory farmed, but it costs a lot more.

I'm almost ready to turn vegetarian rather than to have to continue to fret about where the meat is coming from, how it's raised and in many cases, what it is. Almost - still have to have my bacon fix.

Are any of you ready to change your eating habits for health/environmental concerns? Have you already? Or are you a committed carnivore?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/2 ... more190588

I just don't worry where the meat comes from ...

[Blazedtown]

If you worry about where you're meat comes from, then go hunting. You want fresh meat, imagine venison that was running in a field less than a day before.

No. Don't hunt. For god sakes, don't hunt.

You can never break fee from the addictively sweet taste of deer

They say its the meat version of crack.

[Dyakovo]

If you worry about where you're meat comes from, then go hunting. You want fresh meat, imagine venison that was running in a field less than a day before.

No. Don't hunt. For god sakes, don't hunt.

You can never break fee from the addictively sweet taste of deer

Long pork is better...
*nods*

[Saiwania]

The fish from the article is still fish, right? It is just that the species is mislabeled? If so, I don't mind that very much. So long as there are strict quotas which are enforced to ensure that certain species of fish don't become endangered or extinct from overfishing.

[Disserbia]

Don't think I can live without fish and meat.

[Nationalist State of Knox]

I quite enjoy horse meself.

[Bajireyn]

No. Don't hunt. For god sakes, don't hunt.

You can never break fee from the addictively sweet taste of deer

Long pork is better...
*nods*

I prefer soylent green.

[Pope Joan]

Wendy's has a lot of gall to dare to advertise its fish as Pacific Cod.

That's just a fiction; Cod is Atlantic. this stuff is merely greyfish, and the taste is inferior.

At least they're not substituting pollock, which is even worse.

[Cameroi]

personally i love tilapia. i also love raw cow. i also love the several varieties of tuna that go into real sushi. and yes, i even eat that stuff that ends up in cans.
i also eat chicken and turkey, and probably more meat then vegies, along with more pasta then either potatoes or bread.
i also eat my own cooking more then anyone else's. pacific fisheries have a problem with mercury, because of its having been used as an amalgum during the gold mining era and as a result its having become metabolized by certain mosses that find their way into the aquatic food chain.

so its undertandable that atlantic or other worlds ocians varieties would get mislabled as pacific for advertising purposes. not an excuse i accept for doing so. merely one i can understand.

tilapia tend to be "farm" raised, as would the frankinsalmon, which, while edible, may pose a potential threat to other fisheries.

[Gauthier]

adulterated beef, adulterated fish... Is there anything corporations won't adulterate to make extra money? If there was a way to adulterate vegetables they'd do that too much to the surprise of smug vegans.

[The Blaatschapen]

So the fish we're eating aren't what we've been told they are. Indeed, one type of fish, the escolar, which has made it to many of our tables under false pretenses, can make us sick.

Now I understand that many of you don't like fish, but I love me some seafood - shrimp, lobster, crab, tuna, salmon, clams - you name it. I've chosen to stop eating some of my favorites because they've become endangered - like abalone. Others I won't eat because of heavy metal and toxin issues. But I would at least like to know that when I do eat fish, it's what the label says it is.

I've already pretty much eliminated beef and bison from my diet because I can't be sure of the source or even if it is beef or bison. I've cut down on chicken because I prefer free-range - it tastes better and the bird is actually healthier than factory farmed, but it costs a lot more.

I'm almost ready to turn vegetarian rather than to have to continue to fret about where the meat is coming from, how it's raised and in many cases, what it is. Almost - still have to have my bacon fix.

Are any of you ready to change your eating habits for health/environmental concerns? Have you already? Or are you a committed carnivore?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/2 ... more190588

I have changed my eating habits for health and environtmental reasons. While I do not particularly care about an animals well being (the whole reason that they're alive at all is because they're tasty) but because of energy conservation reasons. 1 kg of meat is several kilograms of veggies. I can better eat the veggies. They're even healthier too.

[Taskforce XVI]

ostrich is pretty nice as biltong. Kudu too. Fish is dodgy just because so much of it comes from devastated stocks.

[Hircus]

I've seen a lot of this type of post and I have to say it. I decided to have a place where I could grow my own stuff and do the things I wanted to do. I bought a cheap fixer upper and have been happy ever sense. I'm way out in the country I still have access to anything anyone else can get. People have choices. It just takes more work.

[TaQud]

I just like meat. I dont care what it is as long as i'm told the truth. Even then, I often don't care.

this

[Britannic Realms]

I always have eaten meat and always shall, in spite of the scientists' daily cries of 'FISH IS GOOD FOR YOU. FISH CAN GIVE YOU CANCER. BEEF CAN LOWER CHOLESTEROL. BEEF CAUSES UNEXPLAINED DEATH IN 50 OUT OF EVERY 100. CHICKEN IS LINKED TO ANTISEMITISM' and such.

[Napkiraly]

I always have eaten meat and always shall, in spite of the scientists' daily cries of 'FISH IS GOOD FOR YOU. FISH CAN GIVE YOU CANCER. BEEF CAN LOWER CHOLESTEROL. BEEF CAUSES UNEXPLAINED DEATH IN 50 OUT OF EVERY 100. CHICKEN IS LINKED TO ANTISEMITISM' and such.

Wot.

[Nationalist State of Knox]

I always have eaten meat and always shall, in spite of the scientists' daily cries of 'FISH IS GOOD FOR YOU. FISH CAN GIVE YOU CANCER. BEEF CAN LOWER CHOLESTEROL. BEEF CAUSES UNEXPLAINED DEATH IN 50 OUT OF EVERY 100. CHICKEN IS LINKED TO ANTISEMITISM' and such.

Wot.

I blame the Je- err, I mean the French. Yeah. The French Jews.

Bloody Kosher baguette-waving bastards.

[YellowApple]

I always have eaten meat and always shall, in spite of the scientists' daily cries of 'FISH IS GOOD FOR YOU. FISH CAN GIVE YOU CANCER. BEEF CAN LOWER CHOLESTEROL. BEEF CAUSES UNEXPLAINED DEATH IN 50 OUT OF EVERY 100. CHICKEN IS LINKED TO ANTISEMITISM' and such.

Wot.

Hitler ate chicken as a child; therefore, chicken *must* make you a Nazi. *nods*

[Napkiraly]

Wot.

I blame the Je- err, I mean the French. Yeah. The French Jews.

Bloody Kosher baguette-waving bastards.

Never trust amphibians. Britain learned that the hard way *raises fists at Plantagenet bastards*

Wot.

Hitler ate chicken as a child; therefore, chicken *must* make you a Nazi. *nods*

I thought it turned you into an Jihadist since its halal?

[Condunum]

No. Don't hunt. For god sakes, don't hunt.

You can never break fee from the addictively sweet taste of deer

They say its the meat version of crack.

Anyone who says that is most certainly right. It's absolutely delicious. It makes the best chili I've ever had, as well as the best jerky.

[Vareiln]

I fucking love escolar, especially as sashimi. I just wish it would stop being labelled as white tuna.
Hell, if I wanted to, I could go out a couple of nights from now and try to catch escolar(although with night fishing, you really have no idea of what you'll catch. Gotta love vertical migration and all that).
Tasty fish. Don't really care about possible health concerns because I don't eat it often, and even when I do, I don't get the issues that some people get.

However, back to relevancy, the mislabeling of fish needs to end. I can't tell you how many times I've walked into a grocery store and looked at the "red snapper" only to see the eyes of a lane snapper staring back at me(Yes, I know my fish rather well). Same goes for their yellowtail snapper, which usually is mangrove snapper. One time, I even saw a mutton snapper mislabeled as a red snapper. That's a pretty extreme difference.