Not feeling burned . . .

From ABC News:

A new investigation provides fresh evidence that restaurants and markets continue to dupe seafood lovers into paying top dollar for low-grade fish.


As part of a special “Fishy Business” series, the Boston Globe spent five months buying fish from dozens of establishments throughout Massachusetts and sending the samples off to a lab in Canada. DNA tests found 48 percent of the fish had been mislabeled as a more expensive type of fish.


Fish samples were gathered from 134 restaurants, grocery stores and seafood markets, and the results were staggering.  Every one of 23 white tuna samples tested turned out to be something other than tuna. In most cases the fish labeled tuna was escolar, which the Globe said was “nicknamed the Ex-Lax of fish by some in the industry for the digestion problems it can cause.”  


All but two of the 26 red snapper samples were another kind of fish, the Globe reported.


Is there a lesson here?  (Can you reason with PEOPLE WHO EAT FISH?!)  It must be this:  Shop at Walmart.

For now, not all the Globe’s results were so disheartening. Every sample tested from Walmart, Trader Joes and  BJ’s Wholesale was correctly labeled, as was every sample of mahi mahi and swordfish.


The whole story is here.