Seafood Raised on Animal Feces Approved for Consumers

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:God bless the free market!

[DarkOx]

And why would they do otherwise? Food poising is not going to kill you. It makes perfect economic sense to risk food poisoning for a little cheaper fish when Medicaid, your employers group plan, and now your highly subsidized Obama Health Exchange plan is going to pick up the bill for the antibiotics, bed time, and bag of saline solution to fix it, should it happen.

We take away peoples incentive to protect themselves, when we socialize the costs to fix it. The result trickle down government ends up raining shit on Chinese fish.