Ramblings from the Mountains

Driving around Tahoe I saw a bumper stick on a SUV with Alaskan plates which read:

There was emphasis and capatilization used radomly which I certainly have mangled. My first thought was that given the first and last lines I could write a bunch of middle lines. But instead of either of the extremes what is wrong with advocating managing our reusable resources in a long term manner? Are we so resource constrained that we have to fight for every morsal ignoring the future? ( Feb 09 2007, 12:49:15 PM PST ) Permalink Comments [1]

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No, the issue is the healthfulness of the resulting fish. As in most food industries, quality takes a backseat to efficiency and cost of production. Farm raised fish have higher level of mercury and other toxins, and it is believed that they do not taste as good. Apparently they do not look as good, but their diet is supplemented with coloring agents to remedy that. This is entirely due to the quality of the food used to feed the fish and could easily be solved, just as the procedures used in the meat packing industry has led to the prevalence of salmonella and could easily be solved so that we could all enjoy our hamburgers rare again.62

Posted by Brian Utterback on February 12, 2007 at 10:02 AM PST #