I just purchased Talapia frozen from China at Ingles Supermarket in North Carolina. It says it’s frozen by a carbon dioxide process (rather than a nitrogen process) which USA normally uses. I don’t know what that means to us, the consumers.
I read here that they have been feeding pigs with a melanmine (sp) ingrediant in North Carolina, a big pig raising state. When I asked the 18 year old worker, he knew nothing about it, although he said 2 other shoppers had asked him about it that day. According to articles here, they don’t know if it’s damaging to humans although they estimate that 4000 pets have lost their lives because of this additive. (It substitutes for protein, which they can advertise and boost their protein content.) We lived in Michigan during the 70’s-80’s when fire retardent was added to cow meal. When the cows wouldn’t eat it, molasses was added to make it attractive to cows. For years, the supermarkets had to advertise that their beef cows came from Texas or some other state and it caused some deaths and physical harm to farm families raising cattle who didn’t realize they were buying retardent-enhanced and then Molasses enhanced feed for their cattle.
Cordio
Great post!
why would they deliberately feed fire retardant to cattle?
did they have a problem with spontaneous cattle combustion?
On 4-26-2007 the state of Alabama banned the import and sale of Talapia and catfish from China. It contains an antibiotic that has been banned which causes some disease in humans. I'll see if I can locate the article I posted about it.
Did you know the fish was from China when you bought it? Frozen fish is nasty, no matter where it comes from. If you have ever eaten truly fresh fish you can never eat any thing less.