[HN Gopher] Revealed: Seafood fraud happening on a vast global s...
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       Revealed: Seafood fraud happening on a vast global scale
        
       Author : elorant
       Score  : 17 points
       Date   : 2021-03-31 19:24 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.theguardian.com)
        
       | ggm wrote:
       | This is only going to get worse, as the price of first-class
       | animal protein rises.
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       | It doesn't help that a lot of mis-naming of species happens. So,
       | Australian fish and chip shops sell "cod" and chips. It's not
       | northern hemisphere cod.
       | 
       | "Snapper" is almost ubiquitous. Oh, thats "seabream" is that the
       | same as "bream" or "brim" ?
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       | "Flake" -thats shark. What shark!
       | 
       | A lot of this is the up-scaling inside a family. So, Tuna has
       | three or four sub varieties. What's going on is that lower grade
       | tuna is passing for higher.
       | 
       | Or farmed for wild.
        
       | yrral wrote:
       | I've also recently (during the COVID-19 outbreak and afterwards)
       | noticed a lot of fish I buy seems to be much more watery than
       | before.
       | 
       | For example I like baking black cod (sablefish) but now baking
       | the same fish causes a huge pool of water to pool underneath the
       | fish and it also makes it hard to fully cook it through in the
       | oven. After some research, it looks like this is due to an
       | additive called sodium tripolyphosphate being added (maybe in
       | greater quantity than before)? This is added to "help retain
       | water" but obviously adding more makes me pay more for the same
       | amount of fish as I'm now buying more water.
       | 
       | For things like this, I don't know who to report it to, as the
       | local supermarket doesn't care and I don't know where in the
       | supply chain this was added (obviously for more profits).
        
       | lucasnortj wrote:
       | Go vegan. Problem solved
        
       | srcmap wrote:
       | Here's a fun story you can tell a friend next time you order
       | calamari:
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       | https://www.thisamericanlife.org/484/doppelgangers
       | 
       | It just might be "Hog rectum".
        
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