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The Uyghurs Forced to Process the World’s Fish
The New Yorker
| October 9, 2023
| Ian Urbina
Posted on 10/12/2023 10:49:16 AM PDT by nickcarraway
The Uyghurs Forced to Process the World’s Fish (Can't be posted, per FR rules.)
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food; Local News
KEYWORDS: china; fish; forcedlabor; muslims; persecuted; slavelabor; uyghurs
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A lot of fish is raised in China, or raised here and sent to China for processing. If you saw the conditions, you wouldn't eat it. The article doesn't mention tilapia, but that is one of them.
To: nickcarraway
I ate tilapia from Walmart yesterday. hopefully not from there.
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posted on
10/12/2023 10:57:14 AM PDT
by
MNDude
To: nickcarraway
I read that the tilapia farms are placed below the massive chicken coops so they only have to feed the chickens.
Never ate tilapia again after I read that.
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posted on
10/12/2023 10:59:24 AM PDT
by
dead
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_vFiUUcBkc)
To: MNDude
Sorry, I love seafood, but I will not eat tilapia. To be polite, I don't eat it at all.
Doesn't Walmart get a lot of stuff from China? Look at the packaging. It may be tough to find, but I think it's written somewhere.
To: dead
I didn’t want to say it, but, yes, stuff like that.
To: nickcarraway
Florida farms tilapia, too, which is delicious... and the other day I saw a bag of whole scaled tilapia farmed in the Amazon. I have had the South American tilapia and it tastes great too.
But I avoid the Chinese tilapia, as it is often super-fishy and mushy. Apparently they don’t let the fish get very old before harvest, or else they can’t survive long enough in sewage to grow up, lol.
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posted on
10/12/2023 11:02:06 AM PDT
by
piasa
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To: dead
Florida grown tilapia is grain fed... very good.
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posted on
10/12/2023 11:03:15 AM PDT
by
piasa
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To: nickcarraway
We eat fish from US waters, and NO tilapia!
Now I know why!
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posted on
10/12/2023 11:03:21 AM PDT
by
Honorary Serb
(Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
To: dead
Stay away from swai and catfish too.
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posted on
10/12/2023 11:03:59 AM PDT
by
Fungi
To: MNDude
It’s almost certain that it was.
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posted on
10/12/2023 11:05:18 AM PDT
by
workerbee
(==)
To: piasa
To me, tilapia tastes like swimming rat.
To: piasa; dead
Florida grown tilapia is grain fed... very good.How would fish in the wild get grain to eat? That's not what fish eat.
To: piasa
Yes, I should have been clearer - I was talking about Chinese tilapia farms, not US ones.
A problem is disreputable importers relabel the cheap Chinese fish as Raised in the US or some other country less disgusting than China.
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posted on
10/12/2023 11:10:44 AM PDT
by
dead
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_vFiUUcBkc)
To: nickcarraway
” Look at the packaging. It may be tough to find, but I think it’s written somewhere.”
going up to the freezer now... :(
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posted on
10/12/2023 11:11:05 AM PDT
by
MNDude
To: MNDude
I ate tilapia from Walmart yesterday. hopefully not from there. I make sure mine is from reputable fish farming outfits. China uses the feces of the Tilapia to mix with feed. Or so I have read. Not taking a chance.
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posted on
10/12/2023 11:17:04 AM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(The Truth is like a lion. You don't need to defended it. Let it loose and it will defend itself.)
To: nickcarraway
Usually, Walmart gets theirs from Brazil. I’ll stick with wild caught Cod or Salmon. Sometimes Tilapia but not from China.
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posted on
10/12/2023 11:18:51 AM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(The Truth is like a lion. You don't need to defended it. Let it loose and it will defend itself.)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
“I make sure mine is from reputable fish farming outfits. China uses the feces of the Tilapia to mix with feed. Or so I have read. Not taking a chance.”
My idea of taking a chance is buying food from Walmart.
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posted on
10/12/2023 11:19:31 AM PDT
by
SaxxonWoods
(“99% of failure comes from people who make excuses.” -George Washington)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
10/12/2023 11:20:48 AM PDT
by
SamAdams76
(6,390,901 Truth | 86,874,940 Twitter)
To: SaxxonWoods
When I do buy Tilapia (not often) it’s not from Walmart. I use local grocers and check the labels and ask questions.
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posted on
10/12/2023 11:21:49 AM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(The Truth is like a lion. You don't need to defended it. Let it loose and it will defend itself.)
To: nickcarraway
Package says “Product of China. Farm Raised”
That’s bad...right?
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posted on
10/12/2023 11:22:13 AM PDT
by
MNDude
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