If you Right Wing Nuts would only pay more taxes so we could hire more inspectors ... and drink less soda!
If you Right Wing Nuts would only pay more taxes so we could hire more inspectors ... and drink less soda!
This just follows the trend that, because of the Republican sequester that obama couldn’t stop, 125% of all horse meat is labeled incorrectly. Also, due to the sequester, there will not be enough janitors available to clean up the oily anal leakage in our schools.
I will say just this.
I searched the internet, and the only reference I could find to this is a paper done in 2009 that found that in NY City, a lot of sushi bars had this issue with tuna.
You’d think if millions of people were getting oily discharge from their butts, there would be at least one article about it in the news.
Oh, there were lots of web references to this story, but they were all on the PETA and vegetarian websites.
I’m see new labels....caught by trawling...southwest pacific....You tell me....
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They are pushing increased government regulation, knowing that we can't afford it, in the hopes it will greatly drive up fish prices.
BTW, this is something the market could correct, if it was as rampant as they claim. I would think that any person who bought a can of tuna and had the symptoms mentioned could sue.
That would force the companies selling tuna to crack down on their suppliers, and then the suppliers on the distributers, and to the original sources.
Lawsuits, people making private claims against others who break contracts (like the contract for selling tuna as tuna), are an efficient way of regulating this type of activity.
The study is very interesting. The biggest "flaw" is that they mixed sushi bars with grocery stores and restaurants. Three vastly different distribution chains, with highly different regulation.
And they note that in most cases, it is the sushi bar samples that drove the high numbers, for example in Washington DC only 2% of the grocery stores had anything mislabeled.
Also, they hit dozens of outlets, and only collected a total of 1200 or so samples, of dozens of fish. So in some cases, they might have only collected 1 or 2 samples.
My guess is they found some disreputable sushi bars and got most of their samples from them, to drive up the numbers.
The study just came out, but they circulated a petition about it last year.
And I can bet that they would LOVE Bloomberg to join them in regulating the fishing industry.
They neglected to mention this is a problem noted in faggots.....
Eat more bacon.
Well, that explains it. /S
“Tuna Green. It’s... it’s... PEOPLE!”
In Sanfrancisco, this is known to be a product 'Feature'.
OK you guys here is the reasons you find such mislabeling in restaurants and grocery stores:
Display. Grocery stores do not know or sometimes care how to handle fish of any stripe. They display it like any other meat, which it is not. This causes huge product losses (waste) which contributes to higher prices for any fish sold.
You will know that a grocer is not displaying fish correctly by the smell. If there is any odor at all, that is an indication the fish is rotting. Fresh fish has no odor other than a faint salty scent.
To display a fish correctly the fish MUST be completely covered in cold ice and the display case must be at the correct temperature for fish - not meat which can remain good at higher temperature.
Most grocers use warm ice as a bed with the fish on top - this does not cool the fish and it begins to rot - thus the strong ‘fish’ smell.
At the end of the day the fish must be stored is a similar manner, not just covered with a cloth, but put into a closed case with more cold ice.
Restaurants have the same mentality, and both are want to recycle rotting fish as something else to cut losses. Alaska publishes a PDF for the correct way to handle and store fish, but neither seems interested in following the rules.
Danson and others have been conducting a vendetta against the commercial fishing industry for decades. Their goal is to eliminate all commercial fishing and particular in the US. One way to do this is by scaring consumers. Last time around it was mercury in tuna.
Make no mistake these people are political in everything they do. And they are just one front in the nearly 45 year old War on all Natural Resource Harvesters. For those so interested - just follow the money back to their funding sources.
At one time, before these socialists began their crusade, commercially caught fish, especially salmon contributed to the US Balance of Trade - holding the number 3 slot. Now, commercially caught fish is somewhere near the bottom, so effective have these leftist been over the decades.
Yes Costco does sell real fish - under their Kirkland (a city near Seattle) and Trident (a large fish buying company) and maybe one or two other brand names. I used to sell my fish to Trident as they were always honest about weights and paid the highest prices - also their checks never bounced.
Caveat about buying at Costco and others - always check the use by date. Even fish flash frozen on board a boat can begin to dehydrate after a long time sitting in a case. High prices often turn a consumer away causing the product to be a slow seller and be keep in the case ‘til near the end of the use by date.
Never ever buy farmed fish of any sort, especially Atlantic or Norwegian salmon - unless you enjoy the fine taste of the food dye use to make the meat red, the tasty antibiotics and growth hormones, or the crunchy bottom paint the fish nibble off the nets they are penned in. For those so concerned about environment - the bottom beneath the fish pens located in slow moving currents becomes a dead zone being mostly a mound of white jelly. Pens in fast moving currents just spread the stuff around so it is not noticeable - like pouring Joy on an oil spill.
The best way to buy fresh fish is directly from the fisherman - if you do not live near the sea, many advertise on the internet in season. It will cost more but the fish will be shipped directly from the fisherman to you in the proper leak-proof packaging with ice. Clams, crab, and oysters can be purchased the same way.
Pollack same as True Cod. One has a barbell on the chin the other does not.
Hake. Used to be regarded as a junk fish. However the huge Pacific North West biomasses encouraged us fisherman to find some way of using the otherwise taste-neutral and fragile meat to make money. Eventually after many trials, Surimi was born. Mostly you see this in stores as “Krab” meat, or the like - notable by the red outer covering and the white color inside.
Salmon. The best is Copper River caught beginning in May. These sockeye and king salmon are brought aboard the boat after no more than one hour in the fisherman’s drift gillnet, the fish’s gill is popped allowing the fish to bleed out, then iced on board and delivered as soon as reasonable either to a floating buyer or the dock. They are then cut (processed) and packaged for delivery to the Lower 48 or to Japan. Delivery is often next-day air freight.
my 2 pennies.
When I see escolar on a menu, it’s usually one of the more expensive dishes.
Who can afford canned tuna these days? After draining the liquid off, you’re left with 2.5 oz per can. Each can is around 75 cents so you are spending nearly $5 a pound for canned mystery meat.
Pelosi owns $17 million dollars worth of StarKist stock.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s home district includes San Francisco. StarKist Tuna’s headquarters are in San Francisco, Pelosi’s home district. StarKist is owned by Del Monte Foods and is a major contributor to Pelosi.
StarKist is the major employer in American Samoa employing 75% of the Samoan work force.
Paul Pelosi, Nancy’s husband, owns $17 million dollars of StarKist stock.
In January, 2007 when the minimum wage was increased from $5.15 to $7.25, Pelosi had American Samoa exempted from the increase so Del Monte would not have to pay the higher wage. This would make Del Monte products less expensive than that of its competitors. Last week when the huge bailout bill was passed, Pelosi added an earmark to the final bill adding $33 million dollars for an “economic development credit in American Samoa”
I hate it when I have oily anal leakage.
I still like a little tuna with my Dolphin. Yummy!
I know of some folks who are analyzing fish flesh to see what species it actually is. A problem is that they get a lot of noise and double ladders because they are using as a marker a mitochondrial protein which, though species-specific, shares enough homology to all the other instances of that protein to generate other copies during PCR, probably from bacteria on the surface of their samples. If it’s a small amount, then it will be amplified by a relatively small amount and the primary sequence can still be read.
“oily anal leakage”
The homosexual agenda knows no bounds.