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."

Comments

Safer than bukaki

[Anonymous Coward]

At least the real thing. Simulation involving glue, mayonaise, etc. are of course entirely safe.

Re:Safer than bukaki

[Anonymous Coward]

Yo mama's pussy smells like tuna sushi. Is it hazardous to my health to eat it? With all the warts and bumps on it and that funky yellow discharge that sometimes comes out of it, I am becoming concerned.

Off-topic

[Anonymous Coward]

Feel free to mod this off-topic - but I just learned about the AGPL - so
here's the conclusion everyone has been waiting for:

It's fucking emo faggot license. You know what it revolves around - the
tool I provided you is helpful to you - Waaaaaaah. Bullshit the AGPL is
not even a license. It's a EULA.

The GPL has never ever tried to restrict use. You can use GPL software

to help you with your math homework
to make more GPL software
to make closed source software
to manage bank records
to fly a plane
to watch porn
to cure cancer
to make more cancer

The AGPL is an Emo-Faggot License. Actually Emo-Faggot EULA.

It concerns itself with usage. Here - we'll have 3 people.

The GPL Developer
The Emo-Faggot
The End User

The GPL developer allows the end user to USE his software in any way the
user feels like.

End User | Hey, I'm gonna take your bc calculator - break RSA with it - and make money, bitch.
The GPL | Meh, knock yourself out.
Emo Fagoot | But I'm a fucking emo. Waaaaah.

Fear it not!

[Anonymous Coward]

Up the airy mountain, down the rushing glen, we dare not go a hunting, for fear of little men!

So technically

[zoomshorts]

99% of the US are simply ignorant. Proper use of words co-opted from other languages,
should be the norm. Sadly most people pass on bad information all the time. Others
tend to believe those people. Pity.

Negative points for the topic being seen on Digg 24 hours ago.

Re:So technically

[maharb]

If everyone in a culture uses a word to describe something and you are the only one who says it is something else then yuo are the ignorant one. Words are made up and have no inherent value... they only have the value that society gives them and in this case society doesn't agree with you.

Re:So technically

[Evil Shabazz]

Just keep telling yourself whatever you need to to feel good about being wrong.

Re:So technically

[Anonymous Coward]

Just keep telling yourself whatever you need to to feel good about being wrong.

Most people are prideful and would rather be dead than admit they're wrong. They will go through all sorts of mental gymnastics to justify themselves. In this case, the guy you responded to would rather reject the entire concept of meaning than admit that he incorrectly used a word. I don't think he realizes that if everything worked that way, and language had no accepted definitions and rules of grammar, then no one would be able to understand anyone else and at that point we may as well stop using language entirely. The only reason why he was able to spew the tired cliche of "[words] only have the value that society gives them" is because the words composing that sentence have set definitions. Otherwise we could arbitrarily define that sentence to mean that he is saying "I am a jackass". If he disagrees with that and more than one of us agrees with it, that would mean he just called himself a jackass, under his system, because the majority have assigned that "value" to his words.

It's funny how people only bring up relativism when it's convenient for them. They don't reject defined meanings when their paychecks say that they now possess a certain amount of money. They wouldn't like the idea of their paychecks or their love lives meaning only what other people think they should mean. They only feel that way about words, and they only feel that way about words when they use them incorrectly and someone points it out. Ego would be amusing if it weren't so sadly misguided.

Re:So technically

[HangingChad]

...then yuo are the ignorant one.

Sometimes the rebuttal just writes itself.

RE: Global Warming is FUBAR

[Anonymous Coward]

Just like sushi, climate "science" is just another astrology praticed by a-hole fagots on the dole and out for the take.

Re:Actually NO

[mwvdlee]

So it's like going to the zoo, asking to see an ass and then having the zookeeper pull down his pants for you?

Would it really have been THAT difficult for the UN peacekeeper to just yell "I need M830's!!!" so he could actually get the armor he needed?

Re:post

[Lord Ender]

I've gotta say, you are a perfect European stereotype. Tiny running shorts, pooping in the woods, then measuring it in units of "egg cup fulls."

Is that metric egg cup fulls, by the way?