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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."
Apparently the stupid people who make and eat sushi haven't realized what humans have known for thousands of years. If you cook your meat, you don't die from deadly bacteria in it. Seriously, how many cases of dangerous bacterial infections have there been from eating completely raw fish. Especially those caught and prepared in the just WONDERFUL sanitation in the Asian fish farms and places where the sushi is prepared.
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The problem is, of course, that sushi is not an English word.
Also, the phrase "language evolves" is not the same thing as "I come from a country where 99% of the population does not have basic literacy skills".
So we (the rest of the world) don't give two shits what sushi means "in the US". We would prefer to use words correctly so that there's common grounds upon which to communicate effectively. You can keep the dog's breakfast of a language that is "American English" thank you very fucking much.
I hate printers.
I'm friends with a Chicago meatpacker. You would never guess what goes into hamburger that's not labeled "100% beef" and I'm not going to tell you either. I will tell you that some of it is cow, some is pig, some is not mammalian, and some isn't even animal.
Oh, and raw hamburger is gray. They use food coloring to make it pink.
...you deserve it.
Cook, cure, smoke, or dry.
Welcome to 1000 years ago. At least. Seriously.
I don't know what else to say.
But obviously not on Slashdot. Heavens no! That would be to "mainstream" and not hyper-jaded.
On Slashdot, you are against Mice, Camera Phones, Color Monitors, mass distributed virtual server networks (aka cloud computing), HTML that includes images, any font besides times new roman, any system that uses more than a 32-bit address bus, any binary that is more than 30kb, any programming language that isn't C, any innovation that wasn't included in the original Unics systems, and now I guess raw fish too.
Good lord. I thought this site was for tech-loving nerds but Slashdot is increasingly a cave for modern-day Luddites to hide in.
Raw Tuna is good. Very good. So is pretty much all those other things some of you Luddites whine about. If you don't like them because it might make you "mainstream" or might go against some stupid "principle" you have, you are seriously missing out. But to not enjoy is your loss and your loss alone. Not mine and certainly not societies either.
Spicy Tuna Rolls. Yum.
No, but when the Japanese use European loan words incorrectly, they're wrong.
Good thing there are people like you to set them straight! Why don't you go there and try to make them comply with your standards?
Clearly you think that to claim something is wrong requires a personal visit followed by a lesson. Speaking of which, how did your education of creationists go? Did you set them straight?
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