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”.
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!
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.
Love farmed Trout from Iowa.
We have so many environmental regulations is the main reason. Also, fishermen are limited as to how many fish they can catch. My daughter goes out on boats and counts the fish, also if they net more than a few dolphins they have to go home. She has to cut up the dolphins to send to the gov’t.
NOAA and EPA regulations are designed to destroy American jobs and businesses.
UN Agenda 21
We have so many environmental regulations is the main reason. Also, fishermen are limited as to how many fish they can catch. My daughter goes out on boats and counts the fish, also if they net more than a few dolphins they have to go home. She has to cut up the dolphins to send to the gov’t.
From what I understand, the New England fishing business has been decimated over the last few decades by policies the elites have had the government impose on our fishing industry.
From what I understand, in the North Atlantic, OUR fishermen are largely somehow “prohibited” from fishing there, Chinese fishing boats fish there like crazy, then bring the fish in and sell them to US consumers. While US fishermen in New England are severely limited in their catch.
Someone will have to do the research on it, perhaps someone knows the details offhand.
Wake up sheeple, the Rothschild/Rockefeller interests hate your guts and are slowly leading you to totalitarianism under their rule.
If they’re not brought to justice, the sheeple’s goose is cooked.
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/aquaculture/docs/aquaculture_docs/world_prod_consumtion_value_aq.pdf
http://www.st.nmfs.noaa.gov/commercial-fisheries/fus/fus12/
http://www.delmarvanow.com/story/news/local/delaware/2014/12/23/coalitions-ready-fight-aquaculture/20824645/ (NIMBY Greenie lawyer)
http://www.fishwatch.gov/farmed_seafood/aquaculture_faqs.htm (would you want to try to start a fish farming [aquaculture] business with the government agencies having this type of attitude?)
All your labor costs have to compete with welfare payments for zero work done.
Belize, with very low labor costs, has had many aquaculture businesses fail because they cannot compete with the labor costs, expertise and efficiency of the SE Asia producers.
I would like to experiment with production of the Australian Red Claw crawfish, the “freshwater lobster”, but the NC Wildlife Resources Commission has outlawed their importation.
“At present, the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission does not allow the importation and culture of Red Claw into the state. While the Red Claw crawfish dies in cold temperatures, there are many thermally enriched waters in the state where the species could survive the winter. Non-native crawfish have been identified as one of the more significant threats to our native populations. There is also concern that exotic parasites and diseases from non-native crawfish could be transferred to our native species.”
Be cautious of eating any farm raised seafood. Very often it is treated antibiotics. So you never really know what it may contain. Farm fish in China like Tillapia can grow in stagnant poisonous water. I will never eat any product from China Knowingly anyway.
“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.”
That survival rate reminded me of the first imports of German doitsu carp to Japan, for interbreeding with koi. Only a few fish survived, but to quote Strangelove, those few carp “bred prodigiously.”
“In 1904,during the Japanese-Russo war, the Munich Research institute for Fisheries in Germany gave 40 western carp to the breeders in Japan. Sadly only 1 Mirror Carp and 6 Leather Carp survived the trip. Nevertheless, these German Carp were immediately introduced into the Japanese breeding programs and cross-bred with their indigenous carp. These seven Doitsu carp turned out to be the genetic backbone of Doitsu carp and later the Doitsu koi as we know them today.”
And while you were looking at the fish in the case, did you see any display covered completely in green ice, or even covered with any ice at all? Chances are the only ice you saw was beneath the fish or only partially covering the fish on top. (Green ice is newly made ice at 28 degrees or lower. Most ice in fish displays is recycled [warm] ice.)
If that was the situation, what you saw and likely smelled was rotting fish. Fresh seafood has NO or slightly briny odor (if you can smell it, it is rotten). Fish is not meat, and must be treated differently, else there will be odors (rotting) and a great amount of loss - one of the reasons consumer fish prices are higher than they should be.
We import seafood mainly because the US fishing industry is mostly out of business compared to what it was in 1960s and 70s. What’s left has to struggle against incessant over regulations designed to put one fishery (or segment of) out of business - usually from the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), OSHA, and the EPA. Not to mention the various states which also regulate State fisheries - usually with the same goal: ridding the USA of commercial fisherman and commercial fisheries - the only exception is Alaska. All of the organizations mentioned are run for and by environmentalists (and by extension - socialists).
There is a similar movement for the farmers: see the San Joaquin Valley, Cal and Klamath Falls, Or. It was only a decade or so ago that the the US became a net importer of food. Whoever control the food and water, controls the people.
This is a national movement which began in the 1970s. It has many fronts: The Nature Conservancy (nature.org), American Rivers (americanrivers.org), World Wildlife Fund (WorldWildlife.org), Natural Resources Defense Council (nrdc.org), The Sierra Club (sierraclub.org), The Ocean Conservancy (www.oceanconservancy.org), Oceana (oceana.org). Other contributors include the Pew Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and hosts of other groups.
When I began as a commercial fisherman in 1973, the US was a net exported of food, and seafood exports were the third largest contributor to the US Balance of Trade. This movement gathered its first wind with the Boldt Decision (United States v. Washington) in 1974 and its second with their SCOTUS victory in Washington vs Fishing Vessel 1979. The Treaty Tribes which these decisions ostensibly benefited, were only pawns as they, decades later, realized. The movement had succeeded in destroying the Washington salmon fisheries and eliminating the non-political management of the Frazer River salmon runs.
Before Boldt and SCOTUS minor infractions were misdemeanors, after minor infractions were Class C felonies. After Boldt and SCOTUS we needed to learn case law in order to fish and to defend ourselves at sea. Several people were put in prison for the crime of fishing. Several more were killed. But you never knew this because it was never reported, even the reporters who did cover the stories had their stories round filed and were let go.
During this time, the US farmed salmon industry began. At first, they claimed they would be non-competitive, but five years later became a major reason for the decline of market for commercially caught salmon. Soon farmed salmon were everywhere. People came to love the taste of bottom paint (cuprous oxide), growth hormones, antibiotics, food dye, etc in their “fresh farmed” salmon - without which these “fish” would be a very pale shade of white and virtually tasteless. There was even an irradiated “year round, in and out” variety which you could store all summer in an open container without smell, rot, or attracting insects.
So when some hapless scallop farmer hands out the keys to his livelihood to some guy from another country, who’s surprised at the result? Everything people eat will eventually be “farmed” (manufactured) - get used to it. It is how socialists will control everyone - all done while others slept or ignored the warnings - many of which I have written about for the past 20 years.