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Default Cabbage Cores, Ugly Tomatoes, and Trash Fish: Coming Soon to aRestaurant Near You

Cindy Hamilton wrote:

> On Monday, March 13, 2017 at 7:09:45 PM UTC-4, dsi1 wrote:
> > On Monday, March 13, 2017 at 12:48:42 PM UTC-10, wrote:
> > > On Monday, February 27, 2017 at 11:26:58 AM UTC-6, U.S. Janet B. wrote:
> > > > http://www.nbcnews.com/business/cons...t-near-n725386
> > > > I see no issue with paying regular top price for "waste food " at the
> > > > restaurant of your choice. If you normally would pay $X for a fish
> > > > dinner, what difference does it make if the fish is ugly. The same
> > > > amount of time, resources and skill went into preparing it.
> > > > Janet US
> > >
> > >
> > > They're already selling Basa in many restaurants, and in many carts in the UK selling fish and chips. Little do the patrons realize that it's a Vietnamese catfish from the fish farms in the Mekong delta. You want a garbage fish this is a prime example.

> >
> > What the heck is so wrong with utilizing fish that is eminently sustainable? Sounds brilliant to me.

>
> Water quality in the Mekong delta. Pretty polluted.



Yup, the fish's diet consists mainly of raw human sewage...peeps living along and *on* the Mekong don't have flush toilets, their "effluent" goes straight into the river...


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