I submitted the following link the other day and was disappointed it didn't get a single upvote. Hopefully more people will see it now. Seems relevant given the topic at hand. <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-11/food-sickens-millions-as-industry-paid-inspectors-find-it-safe.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-11/food-sickens-millio...</a>
This is silly and not at all new. I believe most crops require fertilizer and until very recently in human history it was either decomposing trash or some form of manure. Regardless they both contain nutrients that can be used to feed and grow other things...the whole "circle of life" and what have you!
What the point of such an headline?<p>Public outcry?<p>The agricultural industry needs to find new ways to make food more affordable or more efficiently. Until we find a way to bioengineer proteins from say bacteria, and keep a familiar taste like chicken, we will have to keep using animals.<p>Finding a way to recycle pig waste to reduce the carbon emission and also create seafood seems like a good idea to me.<p>What's the alternative? Letting the pig waste pollute natural resources and keeping seafood price up???
I thought that recycling animal waste into the food chain was one of the suspected causes of CJD.<p>e.g. <a href="http://rense.com/general10/MDSS.HTM" rel="nofollow">http://rense.com/general10/MDSS.HTM</a><p>It seems like a bad idea to me... (primarily from the unknowns, not the knowns)
I suppose there will be the outcry from the Jewish and Muslim factions, as this food is arguably non-kosher and non-halal.<p>It'll probably culminate in a law suite requiring these products to be labeled as such, instead of slipping them in behind the scenes.
Moderators, please change the title. It is extremely misleading. Here's what the article really says:<p>"Ngoc Sinh has been certified as safe by Geneva-based food auditor SGS SA, says Nguyen Trung Thanh, the company’s general director."
"SGS spokeswoman Jennifer Buckley says her company has no record of auditing Ngoc Sinh."<p>In other words, Bloomberg is accusing Ngoc Sinh of having disgusting practices and lying about being inspected, which is a crime, while the title is instead accusing the inspectors of not doing their jobs, which would also be a crime but with a different party accused.
For people who don't consider this as serious, a reminder from one of the older article:
<a href="http://discovermagazine.com/2012/jun/03-hidden-epidemic-tapeworms-in-the-brain" rel="nofollow">http://discovermagazine.com/2012/jun/03-hidden-epidemic-tape...</a><p>It's bad enough to eat pigs with parasites but probably worse to come in contact with their shit.
Couldn't they just test the shrimp?<p>It definitely seems unsanitary on the front of it, but I wonder if it's actually unsafe, or if there is some step down the manufacturing process that makes it safe, such as cooking. On the front of it growing lettuce in pig shit would result in lots of deaths but it doesn't which makes me wonder if it's also a safe way to grow shrimp considering that they pretty much feed on the fish shit anyway.<p>The article is chalk full of experts who say something is unsanitary, but very light on data actually proving that whatever standards these operations have are resulting in unsafe seafood.<p>It would seem to me that shipping seafood covered in pig shit would make a lot of people sick really really fast and if it was unsafe would be REALLY unsafe and generally noticed by people concerned with such things.
Not exactly surprising news. If you eat seafood consider checking what you are buying with Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch (website[1] or app).<p>[1] <a href="http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/cr/seafoodwatch.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/cr/seafoodwatch.aspx</a>