Tilapia?

On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:32:16 +0100, Janet wrote:

So we're caught between a rock and a hard place: fish farms or over
fishing.


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On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:33:46 -0400, James Silverton
wrote:


When I was a kid, you couldn't carry $5 worth of dried beans. You'd
need a truck. Now you can put $5 worth of dried beans in your pocket.

The same with watermelon and many, many other things. A huge
watermelon was $1 only 40 years ago and now, a one inch slice of
watermelon, cut into quarters and wrapped, is $2.
 
On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 06:03:51 -0600, Janet Bostwick
wrote:


A lot is regulated here, but I don't see many labels with country or
origin... so either there are very few with country of origin or we
really don't get much from somewhere else. I don't know, but you'd
think a city that's outlawed plastic bags would want to know where
their food originated.

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On Mar 30, 10:09?pm, sf wrote:

I will tell you my catfish production story. Years ago I worked with
the son of an egg producer. Eggs being cheap then as now, they had to
produce eggs as efficiently as they could. Chicken feed being
expensive, and chickens being relatively inefficient processors of
feed, my coworker's family collected and fed their waste back to the
chickens. This produced a lovely rich yellow yolk, but some
governmental busybody forbade the practice. To avoid wasting the
waste, the business owner installed giant tubs filled with what would
be marketed as "farm-raised" catfish under the chickens.
 
On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 21:31:15 -0500, Stu wrote:


Worse yet, when I was in Vietnam on my government paid vacation forty years ago,
the locals were actually fishing for catfish from the sewage trenches that ran
alongside the highway. Yummo!
 
On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 20:22:33 +0100, Janet wrote:

Contributing to over fishing.

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In article , [email protected]
says...

The alternative, is properly managed, ethical fish farming. Just like
properly managed, ethical meat production. The bottom line is that
consumers need to educate themselves about how their food is produced and
shop accordingly.The market depends on us.

Janet
 
On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 20:09:30 +0000 (UTC), Nad R
wrote:


hehe, not intentionally, but I bet I have. Cow poop too. We had our
own milking cows when I was a youngster. Sometimes, when the milk was
strained, yep, flecks of cow poop!

If you've ever fed hogs, you know the stampede, the splashing of
whatever, in your face while trying to dump that last bucket of slop
into their trough...oops, pig crap too!

Farming is not a clean sport....hehe
 
"Janet" wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
What is your point? You don't want to eat fish from the oil spill, yet
you're against inland fish farms?


Fish farming is certainly a better thing than harping about oil spills. Fish
farming is a great idea. If the area can support it :). There were a lot
of catfish farms in west Tennessee. Also rice. Down here there's shirmp,
blue crab, rice...

Jill

Jill
 
On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 20:57:01 -0400, Leon Manfredi
wrote:


That certainly explains why I think it tastes bland. I didn't like
fish until I tasted salt water fish. Salt water fish also have
thicker fillets (in general)... unless it's a catfish - I *do* like
catfish. It's probably my favorite freshwater fish.

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In article ,
sf wrote:


I thought it was federal, maybe it's state. All our food is labeled
by country of origin, produce tags have it, meat and fish has it, frozen
veggies and fruit have it.

Regards,
Ranee @ Arabian Knits

"She seeks wool and flax, and works with willing hands." Prov 31:13

http://arabianknits.blogspot.com/
 
On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:20:39 -0700, Ran?e at Arabian Knits wrote:


If people saw how tilapia (and pangasius) were farmed they'd never eat
them again. Some of them are good when raised well, but most of them
are pretty ugly in all respects. Find a good brand and stick with it.

Pangasius are then released into dead and fermenting Tilapia ponds to
clean the bottoms. Then they sell those pangasius, throw in some
chemicals, and start another batch of Tilapia. That is the typical SE
Asian cycle for Walmart Fish.

-sw
 
In article ,
Landon wrote:


It isn't about contamination for me so much as it is about the
byproducts and GMOs in them (which are present in most feeds). I also
work hard to find non-grain based cat food, since they are carnivores.

Regards,
Ranee @ Arabian Knits

"She seeks wool and flax, and works with willing hands." Prov 31:13

http://arabianknits.blogspot.com/
 
On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:45:16 -0600, Janet Bostwick
wrote:


Nope, I've missed that one. I'm too busy wishing I was able to travel
with Andrew Zimmern and help him eat all that interesting stuff he
gets to eat on "Bizarre Foods". I never miss an episode.
 
On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 23:17:50 -0700 (PDT), spamtrap1888
wrote:


I can only say that those catfish were put to work doing what they do
naturally. I wonder what they tasted like? It certainly wasn't
"mud". ;)

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On Mar 31, 5:08?pm, Nad R wrote:

CO is not the sort of toxin that causes any harm at very low
concentrations. You'd end up with WAY more in your bloodstream from
BBQing, and CO does not build up in the body. It is though, as James
stated, "cheating," because it makes the meat look fresher than it
otherwise would.

--Bryan
 
On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 21:49:10 -0700, "Bob Terwilliger"
wrote:

LOL! True. Trout isn't one of my favorites. Hubby used to love
trout, and ordered it all the time when he saw it on a menu but I
don't see it on menus or in the grocery stores anymore.


Honestly, catfish are my favorite freshwater fish and I like - tilapia
too (only because I've decided they're okay in tacos). I don't have a
problem with salt water fish. I even eat shark.

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