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FYI, I was just in Aldi, North Raleigh. All of their seafood is labeled with country of origin. I inspected 10-12 bags all had country of origin label. The China stuff I put back and purchased some USA fish.
Tomorrow I will try and inspect Costco and post back.
Seafood......there's NO substitute for local/fresh! You can't fly fish here fast enough from China, to make it even a little appealing. I prefer mine caught within the last 36 hours!
I used to work at UPS and we had pallets of frozen fish come through on the aircraft. Suckers weighed about 7k lbs. I always wondered how long they had been out of the water.
And now we're sending chicken over there too for processing and import.
I read about that recently and saw some pics of a processing plant in China. It was totally gross.
I think this whole thing must be a conspiracy to get the "little people" to become vegetarians while the "elite" buy quality, grass-fed-in-Montana type of steak and anything else they want.
Raise chickens here, ship them to China where they're processed in horrific conditions that nobody really checks on unless the plant in China is forewarned, so that when they come back they can be labeled as a U.S. product.
And seafood? Wonder where the best quality seafood comes from, but caught within a day sounds good to me. That formaldehyde testing thing can be purchased for about one dollar, btw.
There are a couple of guys in Raleigh selling seafood about 36 hours after it was caught. They drive to the Outer Banks twice a week and buy whatever the fisherman caught that day. Some restaurants in Raleigh pay top dollar to serve seafood that fresh. WRAL's website has a story about them.
And in case you didn't know, all that salmon in the grocery store (farm raised) isn't even pink in reality. The food pellets they eat turns them pink. Only wild-caught salmon that has worked hard swimming upstream is naturally pink.
There are a couple of guys in Raleigh selling seafood about 36 hours after it was caught. They drive to the Outer Banks twice a week and buy whatever the fisherman caught that day. Some restaurants in Raleigh pay top dollar to serve seafood that fresh. WRAL's website has a story about them.
And in case you didn't know, all that salmon in the grocery store (farm raised) isn't even pink in reality. The food pellets they eat turns them pink. Only wild-caught salmon that has worked hard swimming upstream is naturally pink.
Oh, yeah, I think I read about those guys recently. Thanks for the reminder.
I wouldn't buy farm raised any kinda fish. Gross. But the wild-caught salmon from the west coast may soon glow in the dark with contamination from Japan.
Why not? I can understand the difference between wild caught vs farm raised salmon, but what's the difference on something like catfish?
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