Phony Fish

This reminds me of an incident that happened a few years ago that is making the rounds online once again. What's in your pet food? This story is about a truck of unrefrigerated fish parts that overturned on its way to a pet food plant.

http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2012/10/truck_spills_fish_guts_closing.html

It pays to do your homework about what you and your loved ones (human or animal) are eating.

That is not old news, at one time it was pretty common knowledge.

Meats, poultry fish not fit for human consumption went into pet food.

The taste, texture, odors that offend humans did not effect the animals. The protein, fiber and nutrient value was still in there.

since the 70's a lot has been done to alter taste, texture, odors in pet food where they can label it as "gourmet pet food".

The concern would be contamination to the pet food such as bacteria or a unacceptable filler that would be detrimental to your pet.

A better example is the contaminated (wheat gluten, used as a binder) from a up stream pet food supplier from a few years again that is still present today.

But the people/person responsible did pay the ultimate price. That is one thing I have to say about China, the trial was quick and to the point.

Good points. I'm pretty sure unrefrigerated fish would lead to some interesting bacteria.

If you alternately layer fish heads, guts, and tails in a 55 gallon barrel with rock salt and set it out in the summer sun, you get a delectable concoction called gurry. The lobsters love it. And after you've been slinging it into the netting in the pots for a few hours you can hardly smell it any more. And the best part is, at the end of the day, you have no problem getting a seat at the bar for a cold beer.

Scooby says "Rut oo can't eat, can be rolled in".

talking about dogs rolling in it.......Our dogs we had on the farm, I think they thought it was a spa treatment...... and then they'd come up to you and you think..... what died.

Since I left the farm, I don't know because the dogs where more house dogs.... but I realized that their diet is pretty sensitive on what they ate..

What the Chinese cut off, probably ended up in pet food.

You lot are cracking me up .

Having spent many childhood years in Leistershire, I now have some curious craving for cheese on toast (splash of worcester Sauce and it's a greade A midnight snack). If I work thru Sir Robin's list, and urban myth is true, I'll be having bad dreams tonight !

UK shops now sell a lot more types of fish than they once did. They mostly sell it as fillets because nobody wants to see how ugly the whole thing is. Fish stocks would be a lot better if we could get around 'ugly' fish. It's not unlike being able to accept insects as a good food source. Brits are generally not open to alternatives and can't even get their heads around what our French neighbours eat.

Speaking of ugly fish that tastes good, you should try some monkfish or monktail. That thing has a huge head and a tail, hence the name monktail. They don't really seem to have a 'body'. Not much in way of bones either. Those things have a nasty set of sharp pointy teeth. We would occasionally get them in the gill nets when we were going for the cod.

The flesh of the monktail is delicious. It very closely resembles the taste of lobster (or lobsta' from where I came from) with just a hint of "fishiness".

From Wikipedia:

They can be pretty big too. I remember one in which swallowed a cod big enough for market that was swallowed so cleanly (and recently), that when we cleaned the monktail, the cod when into the bin with all his brethren.

Cheers !

As a nimrod angler, I have caught fish/creatures that would, upon pulling the thing from the water, would cause utterance of profanity describing popular religious icons, and a back-step off the pier.

Who ordered fish???

Hey, evolution should be posted in the Biomech & Biomed section

It's healthy to slack off and spend time with fishes sometimes.

In here just by looking through the fish meat we could tell the type of fish it's made of.

You can ask Tornado by the way, on the type of crab you're eating. He knows much about it.

My brother was a Fish and poultry man for a number of years. Ripoffs happened on a daily basis. This was predicated on the fact that most people can't tell the difference between a carp and a flounder or scallops and chunks of shark meat. A lot of cut up fish just looks the same.

Eating top level fish is sort of it's own reward. Concentrated toxins - yummy.

What Americans call fish sticks (funniest joke ever told, if you get the joke), Brits call fish fingers. I hope to never know what they are made from. A large proportion of UK fish is sold abroad for no reason other than folk cannot get their head beyond cod and chips.

To make a point; Bloke is in a Brit restaurant and the waiter asks if he would like a cheese course. 'Yes, what types do you have ?'. The Waiter replies, 'Both'.

Hmmm, cheese stick....tsk..tsk.. Sounds cheesy grin joke to me Kris. If the brits has cheese sticks, we only have dillis and parrot fish.

Is that a halibut in you mouth, or are you just pleased to see me ?

Do you like Fish Sticks?

Maybe these guys should "sleep with the fishes"?