Asian Seafood Raised on Pig Feces Approved for U.S. Consumers

[Tony_FLADEM]

At Ngoc Sinh Seafoods Trading & Processing Export Enterprise, a seafood exporter on Vietnam’s southern coast, workers stand on a dirty floor sorting shrimp one hot September day. There’s trash on the floor, and flies crawl over baskets of processed shrimp stacked in an unchilled room in Ca Mau.

Elsewhere in Ca Mau, Nguyen Van Hoang packs shrimp headed for the U.S. in dirty plastic tubs. He covers them in ice made with tap water that the Vietnamese Health Ministry says should be boiled before drinking because of the risk of contamination with bacteria. Vietnam ships 100 million pounds of shrimp a year to the U.S. That’s almost 8 percent of the shrimp Americans eat.

Using ice made from tap water in Vietnam is dangerous because it can spread bacteria to the shrimp, microbiologist Mansour Samadpour says, Bloomberg Markets magazine reports in its November issue.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-11/asian-seafood-raised-on-pig-feces-approved-for-u-s-consumers.html

[dchill]

1. Hey, I'll bet Mitt's BLIND Trust...

Has money invested in THAT. What's not to like?

[gkhouston]

2. Now there's an epidemic in the making. n/t

[Zalatix]

3. We can't even require that imported goods be safe for consumption.

[Hissyspit]

4. Yum yums.

[Lasher]

5. Chicken shit is another part of their balanced diet.

This is not new.

[mrsadm]

9. Sources, please?

[Lasher]

12. Don't eat the fish

Imported fish from China, Vietnam and Thailand is virtually uninspected. Less than two percent of fish and seafood imported from these countries is inspected by the country of origin and the US. In China, chicken houses are built over catfish farms so the chickens can feed the fish below them with their poop.

http://www.examiner.com/article/don-t-eat-the-fish

[Behind the Aegis]

7. That's just shitty!

Shrimp is bad. The Bible tells me so! STONE THEM!

[AZ Progressive]

8. More reasons to be proud to be an American!

That we let our government get corrupt and so in bed with big business to the point of allowing corporations to feed us food raised on shit and unsanitary water, not to mention chicken bathed in feces laced water. I guess we all are eating shit and not knowing it! Proud to be an American!

[chknltl]

10. hmmm....

Which begs the question, if the situation were reversed, would members of our citizenry send tainted food off shore to a nation that once bombed the shit out of us?
No, don't mind me, just thinking out loud.

[mfcorey1]

13. I think I am going to be sick! nt

[Drahthaardogs]

14. ONLY EAT SHRIMP from the USA!

Read on the package where it came from. Someday shrimp is going to kill someone.

[Marrah_G]

15. You need to be really careful what seafood you eat

Smaller stores that specialize in seafood can often tell you exactly where their stuff comes from. I live on the New England coast and I stick to only locally caught stuff.

[obamanut2012]

17. Very smart

[nc4bo]

16. "Let Them Eat Shit", brought to you by the letter (R). nm

[chknltl]

18. So is Gulf of Mexico Seafood any safer?

Add in contaminants to the Northern Pacific from Fukishima and at this point I am considering giving up on Seafood all together!