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Behold The Wunder Boner
Let us share with you this horrifying, but comically named, fish deboning device.More »
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A Global Conservation Controversy Inside Your Fried Fish Sandwich
Here's the problem with fish: it's delicious. So delicious that we humans like to eat some species until they're nearly endangered. (Mmm...sea bass.) "Sustainable" isn't just an environmental concern when it comes to fish—it's good business, too. Which leads us to the problem of the hoki. The what? More » -
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Now In Farmed Fish: Mad Cow Disease?!
Three scientists worry that feeding cow parts to farmed fish could expose seafood consumers to mad cow disease. The scientists published their findings in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease and called on the government to ban cow meat and bone meal from appearing in fish feed. More » -
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Sci-fi Fish Scaring the Hell Out Of Us
If you subsisted on a diet entirely of fish, which would kill you first: mad-cow fish or super tuna? Two stories this week make you wonder. First, Reuters reports on the risk of mad cow disease from farmed fish. Scientists are concerned that the fish, who, curiously enough, dine on pieces of cow, may transmit Creutzfeldt Jakob disease to humans. More » -
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Buy Your Dead Fish For Less At Walmart
A reader sent us the following pics of the neglected aquariums in her local Walmart in Carmi, Illinois. She complained to a manager, but when she checked back "several hours later," the tanks remained untouched. Well, the dead fish were probably slightly smaller, since the remaining live fish were eating them. More » -
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Use Free Trade To Promote Food Safety
National Journal has an interesting article about the intersection of free trade and globalization with increased food safety abroad and at home. Rather than reject shipments of Chinese fish for being raised in disgusting environments, the US should require trading partners to set and enforce their own strict food safety standards and use globalization as a way to promote better standards worldwide, instead of a race to the bottom. More » -
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Fishy Selling Practices At Kansas City Restaurants: 85% Of The Fish On The Menu Is Not The Fish On The Menu
An NBC investigation in Kansas City, Mo., has discovered that 85% of area restaurants surveyed use cheaper fish in place of the one listed on the menu. Instead of red snapper, they mostly served tilapia—which costs five times less. Even "Red Snapper" restaurant was caught serving something that wasn't red snapper. More » -
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Trader Joe's Salmon Comes With Delectable Organic Free-Range Worm
Reader David was eating his dinner of Trader Joe's Chimichurri salmon when he found an unexpected garnish: a rather dead and fully cooked worm. It was brown and roughly an inch long. He e-mailed the company, then brought the fish (and worm) back to the store for a refund. While the store supervisor's handling of the situation was stellar, the reaction from Trader Joe's corporate has been...nonexistent. More »
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US Airways Delivers Corpse To Pet Store
If you're a pet store employee, probably the only thing worse than opening up a shipment of live tropical fish to find them dead is opening up a shipment of live tropical fish to find a human body intended for a research facility in a neighboring town. That's what happened at a Pets Plus in Philadelphia yesterday, and US Airways says the mixup was caused by a "verbal miscommunication between a delivery driver and the cargo representative" and that they're deeply sorry.
"Pet store expects fish shipment, but gets corpse" [Huron Daily Tribune] (Thanks to Joanne!)
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High School Students Bust Restaurants And Grocery Stores For Selling Mislabeled Fish
Two high school students decided to see if New Yorkers were really getting what they paid for when they ordered expensive fish. Guess what? Sometimes, they weren't. More » -
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Pardon Me, Waiter? My "Coffee" Is Actually Hot Soy Sauce
Here's a bizarre story from Flickr user F1.4. After finishing his breakfast at a "classy" joint in the D.C. area, the server came by and topped off his coffee. When he took another sip...it was hot soy sauce. Bleeccch! More » -
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Winco Frozen Fish: The Big U.S. Flag Tells You It's Made In China!
A reader in Redding, California was shopping at the local Winco and saw this ultra-patriotic bag of frozen tilapia—if it were any prouder to be an American it would have to start singing country music. But when glugory turned the bag over, the phrase "Product of China" was stamped across the bottom. "So now these bastards are lulling you into a false sense of patriotism in order to sell their commie fish," writes glugory. That might be overstating it a bit, but we're fans of overstating things here at Consumerist, so... yeah! Damned commie fish! Remember: never trust packaging. It's just marketing you can hold.
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Gorton's Recalls Fish After Consumer Finds Pills Inside
Gorton's has issued a recall of some frozen fish fillets after they confirmed that a consumer found pills inside the product. More » -
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High Levels Of Mercury Found In Sushi Tuna
The New York Times collected 20 tuna samples from high-end restaurants around NYC and tested them for mercury. The results were extremely troubling: More » -
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8 Tips For Fish Shopping
If you grew up in a landlocked area like this author did—or you're just not a foodie at heart—odds are you're a bit clueless when it comes to fish shopping. Alton Brown of the Food Network offers some quick advice on how to find the best fish the next time you go to the market. More » -
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Two Hospitalized After Eating Deadly Mislabeled Chinese Pufferfish
Two Chicagoans have been hospitalized after eating poisonous pufferfish that was imported to the US mislabeled as harmless monkfish. Pufferfish is a delicacy in Japan, but"Chefs must be licensed and usually undergo at least two years of training on how to safely remove the toxic parts of the fish.
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Tainted Chinese Product Was "Wheat Flour" And It Was Also Fed To Fish
We've decided to take a week off and let the chemical melamine write the blog, because our feeble minds can not comprehend the extent of the contamination that has entered our food supply. Today's news is that it is not "wheat gluten" that contaminated the pet food that has killed thousands and thousands of pets, but "wheat flour." What's more, the wheat flour was also used as food for fish that were meant for human consumption. More » -
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Your Red Snapper Sushi Is Likely Fake
Do you like to order delicious red snapper sushi? Joke's on you, it's probably fake. The Chicago Sun-Times had, literally, nothing to do, so it ordered 14 pieces of "red snapper" sushi and then had DNA tests done on this fish. Guess what? None of it was red snapper. More »
