Is it REALLY shrimp? (restaurant, organic, health, vegetable)

[no kudzu]

This is unsettling to me although I rarely buy seafood any more anyway. I like to know what I'm eating.

The shrimp you’re buying isn’t always what it claims to be - The Washington Post

[longnecker]

Interesting article. However I am much more interested in taste than whether it was "farm raised" or wild caught.

[no kudzu]

I don't care about that so much either but I do want to know if I'm buying and getting shrimp and not something else.

[cb at sea]

As long as it's shrimp...I don't particularly care what kind it is, or if it's wild or farm-raised.....

[weezycom]

I can taste the difference between farmed and wild-caught shrimp. Forget the farmed stuff for me. I won't buy it, and I rarely order shrimp in a restaurant unless it's one where there is great care in sourcing and the restaurant vouches for it being wild caught.

[mainebrokerman]

i only eat organic, wild caught, free range, north atlantic shrimp, and this is all you should eat too
its $38.00lb but so what ?? I know what it is and where it came from

Looks like i'll have to start raising my own, im growing my own veggies, have fruit trees, have some meat cows, chickens, lambs, and hogs,,
cause the "store bought " food will kill you - all the greedy corporations are out to kill us thru foods

[Ralph_Kirk]

I love shrimp, but Asian benjo-ditch farmed shrimp is so nasty I won't touch it. This article is telling me that even if I'm paying $38 for a pound of open-ocean shrimp...I might still be getting Asian benjo-ditch farmed shrimp.

So no more shrimp for me.

[mainebrokerman]

Originally Posted by Ralph_Kirk

I love shrimp, but Asian benjo-ditch farmed shrimp is so nasty I won't touch it. This article is telling me that even if I'm paying $38 for a pound of open-ocean shrimp...I might still be getting Asian benjo-ditch farmed shrimp.

So no more shrimp for me.

No Shrimp For You!!! for 6 months!!

so says the shrimp Nazi's !

[Cliffie]

It's a tough choice. A mystery shellfish might be much safer than a farm-raised shrimp raised in utter filth and disease, and it might also be more sustainably captured than a shrimp trawled off the bottom of a devastated fishing ground.

[Miss Hepburn]

I don't eat bottom feeders BUT, on the rare occasion once a year or so I would...
I only buy Key West shrimp....compare them to the Gulf ...and you will, also.
I could never eat any farm-raised anything ...because I have seen too many 20/20s...
and 60 Minuteses!!!
Not salmon, and esp not shrimp...too many reasons to list.

My body and health are very valuable to me...yesterday my beloved neighbor, 57, who
really does live on processed, microwaved, white food and soda was told he has Lymphoma.
I cried like a baby, he was so scared.
The only vegetable he eats that is whole and real are potatoes.