How far removed do we have to be from "yuck" until it's good again? Consider grass-fed cows who crap in their fields fertilizing the grass and then eating said grass again, or even just grass that was crapped on last week. That's only two steps and grass-fed beef is considered prime eating. The filter organs, livers, kidneys are considered great eating, yet their function in life was to filter the animal and collect toxins.
There is all this talk about getting in touch with what we're eating and natural cycles but in our sanitized world, the details are "yuck" to people who have a gut reaction without really thinking about where food comes from. Farms full of poop, slaughtehouses full of blood and excrement. Even in the organic movement, those factors are not removed. It's what our food is. Our food is not a styrofoam pack of meat with a pad to suck up juices. Even organic is sold that way.
Most tilapia are farmed in California in remnant irrigation water that comprises the Salton Sea. That is water that is run through land that is chemically fertilzed and chemically weeded. It all collects in the Salton Sea where it is concentrated through evaporation. Tilapia are the only fish that can survive in that water and the only thing making that water useful.
That's probably truly more scary that tilapia from sewage treatment. Know your food.
Phil  |