Posted on 12/30/2014 7:15:12 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
IN 1982 a Chinese aquaculture scientist named Fusui Zhang journeyed to Martha’s Vineyard in search of scallops. The New England bay scallop had recently been domesticated, and Dr. Zhang thought the Vineyard-grown shellfish might do well in China. After a visit to Lagoon Pond in Tisbury, he boxed up 120 scallops and spirited them away to his lab in Qingdao. During the journey 94 died. But 26 thrived. Thanks to them, today China now grows millions of dollars of New England bay scallops, a significant portion of which are exported back to the United States.
As go scallops, so goes the nation. According to the National Marine Fisheries Service, even though the United States controls more ocean than any other country, 86 percent of the seafood we consume is imported.
But it’s much fishier than that: While a majority of the seafood Americans eat is foreign, a third of what Americans catch is sold to foreigners.
The seafood industry, it turns out, is a great example of the swaps, delete-and-replace maneuvers and other mechanisms that define so much of the outsourced American economy; you can find similar, seemingly inefficient phenomena in everything from textiles to technology. The difference with seafood, though, is that we’re talking about the destruction and outsourcing of the very ecological infrastructure that underpins the health of our coasts. Let’s walk through these illogical arrangements, course by course.
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Isn’t “Free Trade” great?
The world as we know it has changed. Be it government or just really smart foreign entrepreneurs, we have slowly slid into an abyss that is going to be a bitch to climb out of.
I never eat any food from China. Just too afraid of what is in it.
>> Thanks to them, today China now grows millions of dollars of New England bay scallops
The cool thing about Chinese seafood is that it glows in the dark, and registers on a metal detector, from all the pollution.
Therefore it’s easier and cheaper to harvest. :-)
It’s always been part of globalism, still is.
But sheeple still think globalism is a “wacky conspiracy theory”.
>> we have slowly slid into an abyss that is going to be a bitch to climb out of
But we have Facebook! And Twitter! And moovies! And teevee! And videogamez!
Actually most catfish you get in restaurants is probably Asian. When I see “Vietnam” on a box of catfish in small town America, I know our future is bleak.
Can’t even have US grown catfish. What the hell is the world coming to?
Bag of Hickory Wood Chips for Smoking - Produced in China. Free Market!
>> Just too afraid of what is in it.
I have eaten enough food IN China, to be really wary of food FROM China. ;-)
Not even safe for our dogs.
FDA seeks answers about poison in pet jerky from China
http://www.nola.com/pets/index.ssf/2013/10/fda_seeks_answers_about_poison.html
>> Can’t even have US grown catfish.
Sure you can. Move to the country and push up your own pond.
It was explained to me by someone knowledgeable when I asked why Alaskan Cod comes from China. As it turns out, it may be caught in Alaska and then sent to China for processing. Really?? What does this place look like it gets processed in? Can that really be cost effective? Haven’t we learned with all the dogs that died from tainted dog food that maybe, just maybe this isn’t a good idea?
Even in south Louisiana, I have to be very wary to make sure I’m buying gulf coast shrimp...a good portion of the stuff is labeled, “Product of Viet Nam”. :-(
I wouldn't eat anything from Chinese waters...no way, no how! My company does business in China/Taiwan, they have a major water and air contamination issue.
In fact, Taiwanese folks that come to America love to visit the beach. I asked one day, “don't you guys have beaches? After all, yall live on an island?” They responded that they will not get in the water over there, too dirty.
Wild caught in China? Not I. Just like everything else from China....cheap, inferior, copied, stolen.
I'm sure govt. over regulation on our domestic fishing industry might have something to do with it.......
There used to be a pay-to-fish catfish farm near by. Catch your own, clean your own or pay to have it cleaned. Limited catch and size if I remember right. Loved it! No longer any around. Don’t know what they would be fed if they were around. Chinese crap, I guess.
That is the reason it is happening. It wouldn't be done if it was more expensive.
Love farmed Trout from Iowa.
and I’ll supply super markets and restaurants with my cane pole?
>> and I’ll supply super markets and restaurants with my cane pole?
Naw. They’re on their own. :-)
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