Why not shrimps?

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  • peter56765
    peter56765 Posts: 352 Member
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    I hate to rain on the shrimp love parade, but I tend to avoid shrimp unless I know where they came from. Most of the shrimp we eat in the US come from shrimp farms in China or Thailand. There have been numerous food safety issues with Asian farmed seafood, including outright import bans by the US and EU.

    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-11/asian-seafood-raised-on-pig-feces-approved-for-u-s-consumers.html
    http://www.nbcnews.com/id/44701461/ns/health-food_safety/t/tainted-seafood-reaching-american-tables-experts-say/#.UdRaHjcmsjc
    http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/15/world/asia/15fish.html?_r=0

    Edit: tried to make into links

    I tend not to trust any article with "experts say" in the title.

    Also as to the first one - did you not read the part where they say FDA is rejecting the bad shipments? i.e., we have checks in place to make sure the stuff that could make you sick doesn't get to your plate?

    Also, do you not wash your seafood before you cook it? I hear that helps.

    "Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive." - Elbert Hubbard

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    I love shrimp, have eaten shrimp from the grocery store for all my life and never had any issue. Usually get the raw to cook myself too. As for why I don't recommend it -- usually just because I forget.


    Suit yourself. You can eat undercooked chicken and chances are you'll never get Salmonella either. I tried to post from reputable news sources however a simple google search will turn up dozens of articles about the issue. The fact that the FDA has rejected so many shipments of Asian seafood combined with the fact that they only inspect a small percentage of it in the first place is enough to give me pause.

    As to cooking and cleaning: some of the toxicity is from inorganic chemicals and antibiotics that are not destroyed by cooking and cleaning. Think mercury in tuna. All the cooking and cleaning in world won't get rid of it so it's a good idea not to eat it too often.

    I like shrimp too, but I put it in the same category as tuna and ice cream sundaes as things to eat only occasionally, except that with shrimp I have no problem if it's harvested wild.
  • LAW_714
    LAW_714 Posts: 258
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    Luckily, I live only a block away from a fresh seafood market in a state where gulf shrimp are harvested.

    And I plan to have boiled shrimp cocktail tomorrow for the 4th of July.

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