Yes, I am. I wish I could go back to the quill.
But OK, if you say so. Salmon for me. Alaskan salmon. From Alaska. I bought some at the market in nice little serving-sized frozen packages. Upon closer inspection at home, small print revealed "Product of China."
Isn’t everything from China anymore? *sigh*
Here’s one of the articles detailing the tracking of nuclear waste from fukushima as it crosses the Pacific. I’ve seen others, some with graphics - the plume should have reached the US by now (oceanic plume). Note that in my prior post I linked an article where scientists detected fukushima radioactivity in 15 of the 15 fish they tested...in San Diego one year after the disaster in Japan.
“Salmon for me. Alaskan salmon. From Alaska. I bought some at the market in nice little serving-sized frozen packages. Upon closer inspection at home, small print revealed “Product of China.””
It still could be Alaska salmon that was filleted, cut, cleaned and packaged in China.
However, fish from the south china sea might be less radioactive than alaska salmon.
This is because the pacific current is similar to the US east coast gulf stream. The pacific current starts in japan, goes up to alaska and down to California. It is why all the tsunami junk like floating docks, cars and ships is ending up in Washington state. It is also why California is cool in summer, unlike the east coast of the USA where the gulf stream starts in the carribean, goes up the east coast and over to Britain.
I bought the store brand apple juice for my kids. This store advertises using locally and state grown produce, yaddah, yaddah. Stamped on the bottle “made from concentrate from China.” Threw that away. The same chain fights tooth an nail to keep big box stores from being able to expand into grocery sales based upon the premise that you don’t know where their food comes from.
Product of China! Wow. I fish the Pacific off the Washington Coast and the Staright of Jaun De Fuca in the Puget Sound region and try to go to Alaskan once a year. Never seen a Chinaman fishing. I know they are out there. I never would have thought commercial Salmon would be marketed thru China since the American commercial fishery is so damn large and they and the tribes vacuum so many fish.