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I was in the Commissary the other day and noticed Fish that was "Farm Raised" and Product of Vietnam. I did two tours in Vietnam and love the place BUT we spent 10 years dumping every concievable poison we could find on the place.
When I first went to Japan in 1951...we were told NOT to buy/eat the the fresh fruit as the locals at that time after the war were using human waste for fertilizer.
When in town visited the veg stands that had all kinds of fruit including bananas. I would buy large bag full of (bananas) and take back to the base and sell to my buddies for a very small profit. I knew they were imported so there was NO problem.
When I first went to Japan in 1951...we were told NOT to buy/eat the the fresh fruit as the locals at that time after the war were using human waste for fertilizer.
When in town visited the veg stands that had all kinds of fruit including bananas. I would buy large bag full of (bananas) and take back to the base and sell to my buddies for a very small profit. I knew they were imported so there was NO problem.
Steve
The military had the same warning in Germany in the 50s for the same reason.
After close to a yr in Japan...we called it "The Honey Bucket Parade".
My first camp (Japan) was at a former Kamakazie air base. We slept in their former pilots barracks with the low johns and the trap door to the outside where farmers used long scoops to transfer the waste into huge barrells on the side of a wagon that was pulled by oxen. Going down the road was the "Honey Bucket Parade".
Such fond memories of Japan.
Steve
Would see farmers stuffing the waste via hands in the rice paddies.
When I first went to Japan in 1951...we were told NOT to buy/eat the the fresh fruit as the locals at that time after the war were using human waste for fertilizer.
When in town visited the veg stands that had all kinds of fruit including bananas. I would buy large bag full of (bananas) and take back to the base and sell to my buddies for a very small profit. I knew they were imported so there was NO problem.
Steve
That has very little to do with dumping millions of tons of dioxin and other chemicals to defoliate a country and then buying fish raised in it
That has very little to do with dumping millions of tons of dioxin and other chemicals to defoliate a country and then buying fish raised in it
I hate to have to tell you this, but a good bit of your American-grown catfish comes from states in the old south, especially Mississippi. What we now call Agent Orange was sprayed across the cotton belt for longer than we sprayed in on Vietnam. It was used to defoliate the cotton plants in preparation for harvesting from SC to Texas and probably California too.
The point is that if Vietnamese fish is contaminated by dioxin, so is American grown.
I hate to have to tell you this, but a good bit of your American-grown catfish comes from states in the old south, especially Mississippi. What we now call Agent Orange was sprayed across the cotton belt for longer than we sprayed in on Vietnam. It was used to defoliate the cotton plants in preparation for harvesting from SC to Texas and probably California too.
The point is that if Vietnamese fish is contaminated by dioxin, so is American grown.
Not in nearly the levels used in Vietnam. The Iron Triangle has 44 times toxic level. They used dioxin along the Interstates to try to kill the Kudzu but not at nearly the levels in Vietnam.
Have seen on TV what was supposed to be oxen pulling wagons with barrells on the side in Nam...would assume based on my time in Japan and Korea it is the same technology.
Personally I would not buy any of that stuff grown over there with "human waste".
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