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[hamster]

I poached (not fished out of season, gently boiled) some tilapia filets last night for dinner -- but if it wasn't the day before payday with nothing else to eat, I might not have done so. And if I had been paying attention in the store last week, I would not have bought them in the first place.

First, they were farm-raised in China, which is a scary thought. Second, the package stated that their natural color was preserved with, get this, carbon monoxide.

Bleech.

[Pimienta]

wow. That sounds pretty nasty. Now I am going to have to pay more attention to the tilapia I eat. I really like tilapia

[Bomadeno]

What did they actually taste like? Carbon monoxide sure sounds dangerous.. isn't there a law against that? I've never eaten tilapia before, or for the matter seen it, or heard of it.

[hamster]

The fish tasted all right. Carbon monoxide being a gas, I guess it doesn't linger and can't be consumed. But who knows what other pollutants those fish picked up in China that did linger.

[Bomadeno]

Maybe those fishes just failed the olympic training trials...

[Pimienta]

maybe they failed the health tests

[Bomadeno]

Or got attacked, which seems a possibility with today's news ._.

[Pimienta]

yeah they got attacked and were used for scientific experiments

[nil]

Actually carbon monoxide is a very common preservatives. They use it to preserve the pretty pink color in packaged beef in the US (recently approved by the FDA). It doesn't have any side effect at all... other than fatally killing you... but don't worry, no one had been murdered by a fish or a beef yet.

[Bomadeno]

...From now on I will take a shield just in case... fish murder sounds ok, but the idea that my beef could spring up and go on a killer rampage terrifies me immensely. I hope someone manages to find something that also poisons the dead meat, to keep it dead. Maybe cyanide...

[Pimienta]

is it just fish and beef that needs to be worried about?

[nil]

Yes, biologically speaking, if meat return to life, they could become really upset and commit violence. As for vegetables, if they return to life, they just get fresher and taste better.

[Pimienta]

maybe I should become a vegetarian. It sounds safer