Depends on what the pigs eat. If it's free range garbage, then yes.

fnord wrote:

In related news, is there anything the Chinese can't make out of lead?  Is lead the Evil Twin of Scratch?

“We target shipments for a variety of reasons,” he said. “It could be the history of the shipper, the manufacturer, it could be the history of the importer or it could be the commodity itself that we’ve had prior violations with.”

I find it interesting that we can profile for contraband or illegal materials that are imported, but we can't do the same to protect the lives of millions of airline passengers.

I want to know how fucking old that pirate whore is? 12? Who the fuck dresses their tweener daughter up in this kind of get-up?

All little girls are in training to be whores - or so one would believe come Hallowe'en. On another note - despite its rapid approach to ubiquity, tilapia is a lousy food fish. I used to breed them for research, and in my experience they're bony, tasteless fare. Sure, you can cover them with sauce, but it's still tilapia. And sure, they'll eat anything (I used to feed them live cockroaches) and breed in a back yard mud puddle, but that doesn't make them fit for the dinner table. As far as I'm concerned, the world's peasantry can eat as much disgusting tilapia as it wants, as long as I can still pull salmon, halibut and cod from the sea (not to mention the occasional foot).

GooberMcNutly wrote:

WilberCuntLicker wrote:

On another note - despite its rapid approach to ubiquity, tilapia is a lousy food fish.

I'm waiting for more people to start farming Cobia. It's a super farmable fish, one of the fastest growers and tastes great. But because it's also a sport fish, you can get all tied up in red tape while farming it. A farmer near Blacksburg, VA, 400 miles from the ocean, recently ran afoul of the law for having "too many in his possession", in the breeding tank.

I've never had Cobia, but it sounds tasty. Perhaps I'll hop across the pond and see if I can catch one. Environmental concerns aside, farmed fish are not as delectable as the genuine article. I was offered a "taste test" years ago as a young editor - farm vs. wild salmon - by a local aquaculture concern. Much to their displeasure I picked out the wild fish immediately and eschewed their own pallid offering, which they were insisting was "better than wild." The farmed article's underdeveloped muscle texture is obvious to the palate and logically consequent upon a lifetime lived swimming lazy circles. If we must farm fish, the best alternative I've seen so far is transgenic salmon. Twice the growth in half the time, with the added benefit that it's salmon, not some bony garbage fish like tilapia.

opsec wrote:

I agree with you about the taste, Wilbur.  I also can't quite get past eating cichlids.

Agreed - I can't imagine sinking teeth into my beloved geophagus. They're too pretty, too bony, and too much like little dogs.

                      Cichlids do not make good food fish.