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16. This isn't an ambiguous term like "natural" or "blueberry-flavored" or "cage-free."

Reply to marybourg (Reply #15)

Thu Feb 21, 2013, 12:55 PM

Feb 2013

Saying what something is seems pretty basic. If I buy something labeled beef, I expect it to be cow meat, not horse meat. If I buy applesauce, I expect it to be made from apples, not tomatoes. If you tell me there's no law against these things, my thought is that there damn well ought to be, not that I guess it's all good because no laws were really broken. But I'm highly skeptical there's not a law against it.

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One-third of seafood mislabeled, study finds [View all] Mason Kennedy Feb 2013 OP

The justice system works this way. hobbit709 Feb 2013 #1

It seems dotymed Feb 2013 #6

It depends who you screwed. Ask Bernie Madoff. hughee99 Feb 2013 #23

Sea Horse? Bosonic Feb 2013 #2

imported from romania i bet dembotoz Feb 2013 #8

This article was quite lacking in detail. WinkyDink Feb 2013 #3

Most Sushi/Sashimi restaurants AsahinaKimi Feb 2013 #4

I don't see how someone could not tell d_r Feb 2013 #7

Count me in the group... awoke_in_2003 Feb 2013 #19

its pretty easy to tell.. AsahinaKimi Feb 2013 #20

My problem is is eat... awoke_in_2003 Feb 2013 #21

Right, yellowtail is easy to tell from 'tuna.' pangaia Feb 2013 #10

It's fun to eat out, but you know something, I'll be honest closeupready Feb 2013 #5

Thank W for gutting the regulations and undercutting the regulators. marble falls Feb 2013 #9

Remember that in the U.S., "the most highly tested of all seafood" according to the FDA, Dustlawyer Feb 2013 #11

I gave up fish! SCVDem Feb 2013 #12

Actually it works this way: marybourg Feb 2013 #13

You don't think it's against the law to mislabel one kind of meat as another? (nt) Nine Feb 2013 #14

Laws are not what we "think". They either have been passed by a legislative body, marybourg Feb 2013 #15

This isn't an ambiguous term like "natural" or "blueberry-flavored" or "cage-free." Nine Feb 2013 #16

fish Kali Feb 2013 #22

Horse or Beef? SCVDem Feb 2013 #17

Someone has to know, have actual, immediate evidence of fraud, and make a complaint, elleng Feb 2013 #18

Great. I just had some "snapper". KamaAina Feb 2013 #24

Amazing what they can do SCVDem Feb 2013 #25

and this is why I live by the coastside musette_sf Feb 2013 #26

Jail is for poor people so they can provide cheap labor for the 1% judesedit Feb 2013 #27

Sushi and Rev. Moon underpants Feb 2013 #28