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Is That Sushi Hazardous To Your Health?
pdclarry writes "A recent study by scientists at the American Museum of Natural History and Columbia University found that a piece of tuna sushi may not be tuna at all: 'A piece of tuna sushi has the potential to be an endangered species, a fraud or a health hazard,' wrote the authors. 'All three of these cases were uncovered in this study.' The study, published in PLoS ONE examined 68 samples of tuna sushi purchased from 31 restaurants in Manhattan (New York City) and Denver, Colorado. Some of these were from endangered species, others were not as labeled, and some were not tuna at all. Of these last, five samples labeled as 'white tuna' were from a toxic fish, Escolar, which is a gempylid species banned for sale in Italy and Japan due to health concerns. 'It can cause gastrointestinal symptoms ranging from mild and rapid passage of oily yellow or orange droplets, to severe diarrhea with nausea and vomiting. The milder symptoms have been referred to as keriorrhea [i.e. flow of wax in Greek].' Fraud in sushi is not new; Slashdot also reported study on mislabeling in 2008. This new study shows that some sushi can actually make you sick. The study was also covered by Wired."
so who believes? And who cares?
You sir, are both a moron and an idiot.
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
You just fucking agreed with me without even knowing it because you are too dumb to even get what you said. When your bank says you have $100 in it society know what that means because everyone agrees what 100 is and everyone knows what a dollar is. If you think 100 dollars means what everyone else is calling 200 dollars YOU are shit out of luck because everyone else is going to act as if you had the 100 not the 200. Society determines the meaning and values of words. If everyone believes that a word means one thing THAT IS WHAT IT MEANS. If everyone in a region says that raw fish can also be called sushi then raw fish is fucking sushi. How hard is that to understand.
You're equating keeping fish in an aquarium or a koi pond to slavery?
If you've ever had a salt water aquarium, you will know that unless you want to see floating fish, it's a full time job. However if the use of the word "slavery" offended you - fuck off. I don't DO "politically correct". The right to offend is more important than the right to not be offended.
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
that's nice, but the words are Japanese and defined by how the Japanese use them
That's so cute! I guess you think that the Japanese use European loan words exclusively in the way that Europeans use them?
I'd tell you to get over your racist exoticism, but I have the feeling you're a hopeless case. You pathetic fuck. I hope you die tomorrow.
Same goes for sushi restaurants. Sometimes when I say I feel like sushi, I end up getting soba. Certainly you are not going to argue that soba is a subset of sushi, are you?
You sound like a weaboo. No matter how much you whine and moan about Japanese words being used in the English language (since Japanese is a perfect language, and completely beyond reproach), you will never be japanese. No one cares that you know the difference between sashimi and sushi, just like no one cares that you make yourself kawaii (that means CUTE) bento boxes that are pinku (that's Japanese for 'pink').
You will die alone. No one will notice.