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Posted on 05/18/2008 7:25:23 AM PDT by JACKRUSSELL
They just need a way to brand the shrip “Organic” and they can double the price.
never mexican, chinese, malaysian, indonesian, korean etc....
Another reason why I never touch seafood. Maybe people will come to their senses and stop wasting huge amounts of money on crustations and begin eating real food.
Bad timing there JR as we were going to grill shrimps next weekend and it’s too late to order Allan Bros Steaks...
I live in Missouri and I eat no shrimp, except what I consume on vacation to coastal Ga. and La. There the local resturaunts serve local shrimp. The chains and hotel/high end resturaunts serve imported shrimp. Same with oysters and other shellfish. For the price, the quality sucks compared to the local cook shacks we seek out.
I always buy the local, frozen shrimp in the coastal areas to bring home in the cooler. A few pounds of shrimp goes a long way towards tyin me over till my next visit.
I agree, fresh Key West pink shrimp are excellent.
Visions of a report some time ago - “shrimp” farms in China. The shrimp were grown in stagnant ponds with chicken pens suspended over the ponds. With chickens raised above, and the waste product dropping below, the farm had solved multiple problems - no disposal issues for the chicken litter, and the shrimp didn’t need to be fed...
>> “It’s just shamefully out of date, and Congress needs to fix that.”
I’m afraid they’ll be too busy kicking Rove’s ass.
A 12v battery, an old car head light, a long handled net and we’re off to catch our own locally. No worries about tainted imports.
Have you had Alaskan spot prawns? If you get to the NW you should try them.
wishing I could get nice mega prawns
Agree to tastes bad and has mercury.
I used to love eating shrimp in (higher quality) Chinese restaurants until a few years ago, when I began to get an upset stomach almost every time. Then these types of stories started to come out, and everything suddenly made sense. I think we’ve got a real problem with imported food from the Third World, and now that America has become a net importer of food, it’s likely to get worse.
....”Other markets such as the European Union have found chloramphenicol in shrimp imported from China and Vietnam, resulting in bans of certain imports.”
I note the “China and Vietnam” mention in the article, but seems to me the “China” label is actually “Thailand”.
Can anyone confirm this? I am going by my own package label reading experience as I shop for seafood. I don’t find much of anything as “Product of China”, only as “Product of Thailand” and “farm raised” as though to fool us fools. (Tilapia, Cod, and Shrimp)
Most of what I’ve been finding (seafood) actually labeled “Product of China” is also labeled “Wild Caught”. Logically the “Wild Caught” would mean not “Farm Raised”, thus safe to consume, but then is it really “Wild Caught”, or just a BS label? With only 1.2% F.D.A. inspection due understaffing, how can it be proven to be “Wild Caught”?
We will buy imported seafood except from Thailand, China, or Viet Nam as there are too many questions unanswered, and virtually no oversight from our own Government our taxes go to pay for.
We love our seafood. Don’t want to give it up, so we shop carefully for ours.
Used to have one of the Gulfs largest fleets about 35 miles from here. With the implementation of TED's, they moved to Mexico.
Last week when we went shopping I looked for large shrimp to grill. All of the shrimp packages were marked China or Taiwan etc.
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