Seafood Raised on Animal Feces Approved for Consumers

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Seafood Raised on Animal Feces Approved for Consumers

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday October 11, 2012 @05:37PM from the smells-like-progress dept.

If you are a seafood lover and wish that you could eat more fish raised on pig feces, your dreams are coming true. Due to fierce competition in the Chinese tilapia industry, farmers are increasingly switching to feces instead of commercial feed. From the article: "At Chen Qiang’s tilapia farm in Yangjiang city in China’s Guangdong province, which borders Hong Kong, Chen feeds fish partly with feces from hundreds of pigs and geese. That practice is dangerous for American consumers, says Michael Doyle, director of the University of Georgia’s Center for Food Safety. 'The manure the Chinese use to feed fish is frequently contaminated with microbes like salmonella,' says Doyle, who has studied foodborne diseases in China."

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Re:Chinese regulators are like Honey Badger by Anonymous Coward · 2012-10-11 17:42 · Score: 5, Funny

Don't worry - the free market will work all of this out!
God bless the free market! by Anonymous Coward · 2012-10-11 18:00 · Score: 2, Funny

Don't worry - the free market will work all of this out!
Actually, i don't, providing that we -the consumers- are informed (like we are now), so we -the consumers- can choose if we want feces with our fish (i dont't mind so mutch, but i understand that it's a matter of taste) - way better than a non free market where your only option would be...
1. Re:God bless the free market! by Raumkraut · 2012-10-11 20:39 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  No, no, no, you've got it all wrong!
  The free market is about freedom for corporations; to sell whatever crap they want, however they want. If corporations cannot maximise profit by colluding to artificially maintain high prices and low wages, then the market is clearly not free!
2. Re:God bless the free market! by blane.bramble · 2012-10-11 21:24 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I shall launch my new brand:
  Fish-It
  Then they can't claim they weren't warned!
Re:Do you know what real animals eat? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-10-11 18:48 · Score: 2, Funny

that would have to be one charming motherfucking pig.
get the drums ready by Hognoxious · 2012-10-11 19:08 · Score: 5, Funny

I went into a restaurant where they serve this. When I red the menu I shouted "bullshit!"
The waiter said "Would madam like a large portion or a small one?"

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