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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Replying to @arthur_affect
I knew about "counterfeit fish" but had no idea it was actually legal to swap out a different one like that. Tremendous
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Replying to @jamiroqueer
There's no laws! The laws about meat are from the USDA, and back in ye olden days when they made those laws fish weren't considered "agriculture"!
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Replying to @arthur_affect @jamiroqueer
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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