Tilapia Raised on Feces Hits US Tables
As if you needed another reason to avoid tilapia...[font size="+2"]Tilapia raised on feces hits US tables[/font]
The garbage fish isn't picky with its eating habits. That makes it cheap to farm and buy, but a big health risk to consumers who don't check its country of origin.
As fish go, tilapia's lifestyle leaves much to be desired.
They're a "garbage fish" in every sense of the word. They can survive in hopelessly polluted environments, they can be bred and raised in garbage cans and, when necessary, can subsist on a diet of other animals' excrement.
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"While there are some really good aquaculture ponds in Asia, in many of these ponds -- or really in most of these ponds -- it's typical to use untreated chicken manure as the primary nutrition," he told MSN News. "In some places, like Thailand for example, they will just put the chickens over the pond and they just poop right in the pond."
That's creating antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria, but it's also creating problems for U.S. eaters who get 82% of their Tilapia from China. Last month it was announced that production of farmed fish had overtaken farmed beef for the first time in recorded history. Large amounts of that production come from farms like those featured in Bloomberg's October piece, titled simply "Asian seafood raised on pig feces approved for U.S. consumers."
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http://money.msn.com/now/post--tilapia-raised-on-feces-hits-us-tables
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Back to catfish I guess. 
in Niantic/Old Lyme, CT twice each summer years ago.
Best whole-belly clams I ever had were at a little place called "Dad's" on Route 156, along the shore.
mmmmm.... 
that's IT!!!!
I used to camp at Rocky Neck.
So glad to hear that Dad's is still there
. . .unless I'm down in Florida (Key West), and I won't buy shrimp unless they're either the Gulf Coast pinks or the Mayport whites (East Coast US).
In short, I won't eat seafood unless it's from USA waters.
BTW, my area does have a local chain pizza (Planet Pizza), but they're a far cry from Papa John's or Pizza Hut. We also have Frank Pepe's, and for me, it's either the white clam or the fresh tomato (summer months only) or it's no dice.
That didn't stop people from seeing the national TV ads and driving to Gulfport, Miss., an hour away, to get to one. 
because what does not come from asia comes from the oil soaked gulf of mexico. tough for even a flordia girl to get good shrimp. 
I've never actually bought tilapia - I'm not a fan of fish in general and tilapia has the lowest levels of omega 3 fatty acids of most fish, so when I DO have fish, I spend the money on wild salmon or trout or something. Thank god, after reading this. 
That said - I was reading about a hydroponics system for gardening (something I'm trying to get into) in which the tank that holds the water can be filled with tilapia, or even salmon in cold climates...they clean the water of the by products of your gardening and you do have to feed them...if I was the one feeding tilapia, I think I'd be okay eating them. But I won't be buying them in stores. ew.
the opposite of kama'aina , the Ala Wai Canal is the one that separates Waikiki from the rest of O'ahu. It is so filthy that the canoe paddlers have to be careful they don't tip over, lest they touch it. 
No more for me!
Sewer-vignon Blanc? 
I enjoy shrimp, crab, crawfish, lobster, and mushrooms. If someone wants to tell me how Tilapia meat is a health risk to a healthy person who doesn't ever take antibiotics, while the first 5 are safe, please explain it to me.
Here I thought the honey buckets by my clam digging and crabbing spots were for human use, but I guess they're there for all the fishies in the water to use instead..
In the 1700's there was a huge population of salmon in the sound because the forests bordering the shores and the rivers feeding it brought in a huge amount of biomass from upstream. This biomass fed a robust food chain.
Between the 1800's and 1970's that food chain became dependent on human waste. In a legitimate effort to prevent pathogens from entering waterways, improved sewage treatment has rendered puget sound relatively sterile.
It is a self-delusion that shit, specifically our shit, is somehow separate from the biosphere in which we live.
http://gardenpool.org/
Industrialization of food is a bad thing. Not because the fish eat poop 
but because the poopers upstream eat antibiotics.
