So you all know that, unlike the words "chicken", "pork" and "beef", USDA doesn't impose any truth-in-advertising regulations on the names of fish and restaurants are allowed to call the fish they sell you anything they want right They can, and do, just liehttps://twitter.com/JillFilipovic/status/1354868000885641218 …
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It's actually kind of funny and ironic that the whole deal with fishermen stereotypically telling "fish stories" you can't argue with because you weren't there is how the commercial fishing industry also works
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"This swordfish you're eating, you should've seen it, it was 200 pounds, I spent twelve hours fighting with it, I had to beat it to death with my tackle box What? No, it isn't just a bunch of trash I scraped off the muddy seabed with a net and assembled to look like swordfish"
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Some of the branding stuff does cross over for reasons that aren't totally clear to me: "wild boar" can be farmed.
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It's a different subspecies than regular pigs though, so I guess that's the workaround.
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Wild-caught fish is still not regulated by the USDA, but by NOAA in the Dept. of Commerce & the FDA. Except catfish - ONLY catfish - which is regulated by USDA in a wacky tale of Congressional mishap.https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/why-the-us-government-treats-catfish-unlike-any-other-fish …
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