'Our #seafood is loaded with unspeakably gross #pollutants'! ow.ly/fMZG4 Avoid these by eating #local and #organic!
— Organic Consumers (@OrganicConsumer) December 4, 2012
Does anyone know what organic seafood is?
Wednesday, December 05, 2012
Organic Seafood
The Organic Consumers Association advocates eating local and organic seafood:
Does anyone know what organic seafood is?
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Does anyone know what organic seafood is?
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Undoubtedly farm-raised, and hence probably not as healthy as wild-caught fish, if you can find unpolluted sources.
Local from the Chesapeake Bay. A horribly polluted body of water.
Bix, any word back yet from Organic Consumers?
No. I wasn't sure what they were referring to. I vaguely recall that the USDA was considering allowing some farmed fish to be called "organic" but I wasn't keeping track.
So, the Organic Consumers Association is advising us to eat factory farmed fish. Is "aquaculture" just a nice-sounding euphemism for factory farmed?
By the way, I thought that link in the tweet, the AlterNet article by Jill Richardson was really good.
Bill Marler's Food Safety News never lets me down:
USDA Works to Create Organic Aquaculture Standards
"Existing U.S. rules do not allow any seafood to bear the coveted ‘USDA Organic’ label due to the lack of standards for organic aquaculture production and certification."
So, the USDA's National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) is working on a rule, over the next 2 years. They have to decide what chemicals they'll allow.
In the mean time, I guess "organic" means whatever anyone wants it to mean.
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