I remember a few years back I was at Safeway and they had a ton of family packs of ground beef marked down to something like $1.99/lb so I grabbed 3 or 4. While walking to my car after going through the self checkout I was thinking the total was way too low (I'm old enough I can do math in my head). When I looked at the receipt I saw they somehow screwed up the pricing in the computer, the tags said $1.99/lb but they only charged me $1.99/each.
Doesn't matter. What's on the label is what they have to charge you. They'll try to say otherwise, until you whip out your phone, take a picture, and start dialing the authorities. Ask me how I know.
One of the benefits of living in Alaska is having the worlds highest quality protein and fats available. I literally would not eat that "fresh farm raised" salmon if they paid me to take from their store.
I know that it's all some people have available to them, because they live thousands of miles from Alaska, so I am not looking down my nose at them for eating that, I am just thanking my lucky stars for being able to live in what we call "The Last Great Place".
Factory farms go cheap. Soy and cottonseed are popular fillers. Both are GMO and massively saturated in petroleum-based chemicals. Those chemicals accumulate in fatty tissues of the animals, then super-accumulate in the fatty tissues of the human diner.
Of course, compacting pelagic populations automatically increases disease, so massive doses of antibiotics are required. Those antibiotics are transferred to the human at the supper table... reducing/eliminating the effectiveness of physician-proscribed antibiotics designed to save your life. MSRA -- antibiotic-resistant cesspools of death.
Factory-farmed fish-sellers have a color chart. Corporate buyers choose their desired color of the packaged fish, and the farmers add a representative color to the feed.
!!! After touching the package, worsh your hands !!!
I remember a few years back I was at Safeway and they had a ton of family packs of ground beef marked down to something like $1.99/lb so I grabbed 3 or 4. While walking to my car after going through the self checkout I was thinking the total was way too low (I'm old enough I can do math in my head). When I looked at the receipt I saw they somehow screwed up the pricing in the computer, the tags said $1.99/lb but they only charged me $1.99/each.
ReplyDeleteThat's farmed salmon, see how orange it is. The price is about right.
ReplyDeleteDoesn't matter. What's on the label is what they have to charge you. They'll try to say otherwise, until you whip out your phone, take a picture, and start dialing the authorities. Ask me how I know.
ReplyDeleteExcept at walmart, then they have two stock boys rough you uo and try and tell the cops you must have changed the tag.
DeleteAsk ne how I know.
Exile1971
after checking for more of these "specials"
ReplyDeleteEverybody loves a bargain. Use by date: Oct. 1976.
ReplyDeleteNot a bad price.
ReplyDeleteFarmed fish. Eat at your own peril. Friends don't let friends eat farmed fish.
ReplyDeleteA favorite bumper sticker here in fly fishing paradise: "Real Fish Don't Eat Pellets"
DeleteTrue but some of the nasty shit real fish do eat is even worse than pellets.
DeleteOne of the benefits of living in Alaska is having the worlds highest quality protein and fats available.
ReplyDeleteI literally would not eat that "fresh farm raised" salmon if they paid me to take from their store.
I know that it's all some people have available to them, because they live thousands of miles from Alaska, so I am not looking down my nose at them for eating that, I am just thanking my lucky stars for being able to live in what we call "The Last Great Place".
Tim in AK
Factory farms go cheap.
ReplyDeleteSoy and cottonseed are popular fillers.
Both are GMO and massively saturated in petroleum-based chemicals.
Those chemicals accumulate in fatty tissues of the animals, then super-accumulate in the fatty tissues of the human diner.
Of course, compacting pelagic populations automatically increases disease, so massive doses of antibiotics are required.
Those antibiotics are transferred to the human at the supper table... reducing/eliminating the effectiveness of physician-proscribed antibiotics designed to save your life.
MSRA -- antibiotic-resistant cesspools of death.
Factory-farmed fish-sellers have a color chart.
Corporate buyers choose their desired color of the packaged fish, and the farmers add a representative color to the feed.
!!! After touching the package, worsh your hands !!!