for introducing the BASA to New Zealand. The video clip is a MUST SEE.
You may not want to eat fish and chips again.
http://www.vimeo.com/11817894
I have also started a similar thread in General Discussion
obviousas,
Jul 29, 11:06pm
Also applies to prawns, other seafood products like surami (splling) and maybe soya sauce... .
pickles7,
Jul 30, 1:20am
We had fish and chips last night. My husband couldn't eat his fish, said it didn't look right. It was very white, solid, and strong. Shrimps are not available now, maybe they are used as feed
marcs,
Jul 30, 2:07am
I do not buy any fish that does not say product of Australia or NZ (I live in Auz).
pat56,
Jul 30, 7:32am
Call it what it really is - CATFISH, mudfish from the cesspools of Asia.
obviousas,
Jul 30, 9:37am
Gordon Ramsay was in America catching catfish up 40 or 50bs (on TV One last Saturday afternoon). Excellent fish for eating according to Gordon. But that is a different fish and place from those in Vietnam. The Mekong is a drain, sewer and fish farm!
beaker59,
Jul 30, 10:08am
What are the waikato river catfish like to eat I wonder. I heard the ones in Taupo are better than the trout.
uli,
Jul 30, 10:23am
They are ok beaker - the same as the goldfish and the Koi. The latter are just carp - with all their lovely little pin bones ... but lots of Asian Aucklanders go and fish for them now. You are not allowed to throw them back - so either leave them on the bank or take them home and cook them for the cat - or yourself ... bon appetit!
beaker59,
Jul 30, 10:52am
The Koi make great snapper bait aparently Uli I am tempted to go down with my bow and score a few.
Personally I would only eat fish from above Hamilton.
obviousas,
Jul 31, 5:28am
How do u use the carp as a bait for snapper? Like using mullet?
beaker59,
Jul 31, 5:39am
Pretty much only done it once myself and it worked fine. But the Waikato boys tell me they use little else at times and it works really well. Cut fillits into strip baits. As a bonus you are reducing the noxious pest population.
ferita,
Jul 31, 5:51am
Yep. its an oily flesh and snapper love them.
gordy8252,
Aug 2, 6:50pm
Its disgusting we have a supermarket chain importing this crap from the sewers of the world. . boycott the stuff and tell your friends
uli,
Aug 2, 8:13pm
The three gorges dam in china is full to the brim now - and with it comes the rubbish from 150 million people living upstream. They throw their rubbish into the river as they have no rubbish dumps ...
Here are some photos: http://www.spiegel. de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-57759.html
I wonder if there are still fish in there ... and to where they get exported ...
pickles7,
Aug 2, 9:29pm
I have noticed more and more products are packaged in New Zealand, with no reference as to where the product was imported , from. I phoned the shop where we got our last fish n chips from, Asked if the fish was "catfish", I was told it was "ling". That being the case, We will go eat at our Charted Club, that way we can go in the draw, eat out, socialize, wonder who everyone is on about, and come home with; a whole sirloin, and/or change from $1600, if we are lucky.
obviousas,
Aug 2, 10:38pm
Yes, let the whole of NZ know. Copy the link and spread the gospel.
I think what is more concerning if this stuff is used in fish fingers, fish O fillet in McD, KFc, BKs as pickles7 rightly pointed out.
dezzie,
Aug 2, 11:33pm
ling is an actual fish caught in NZ. . http://www.sealord.co.nz/xml/default. asp? globalSubPage=catch 4e
I didn't see anywhere that pickles said catfish is used in fish fingers etc, most fish fingers are made using the scrapy bits of fish at the processing plants here, I can't imagine them buying fish in for such a low value product.
fisher,
Aug 3, 1:21am
agreed dezzie... we simply have too much "leftovers" here in OUR processing plants. .
obviousas,
Jan 4, 5:08pm
Below is copied from an email sent to me with pictures. Anyway, there are too many incidents similar to the melamine case. In the 1980's there was the infamous Spanish cooking oil sold which were industrial oils. Just in the last couple of years, wine served in a wedding was made from methylated spirit or similar
The TESCO green peas which were dyed peas... ... ...
Green peas are green rounded pea seeds that are sweet and starchy in taste. Green peas contains twice the protein of most vegetable, so they are a healthier substitute for meat. Three quarters cup of peas provides 6 grams of protein, plus thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, calcium, iron, phosphorus, potassium and 645 units of vitamin A.
Unfortunately most of food industries in developing nations cheating the customers with fake greens peas which are prepared from toxic chemicals (dyes). These industries preparing the green peas form brown peas (cheaper) by soaking them in dye solution for overnight.
All these chemicals have been banned by US food and drug administration in 1974 itself. Frequent consumption of fake green peas leads to colon and bladder cancer.
All these fake green peas banned in US, Canada, all European countries and other developed countries.
Identification of fake green peas:
1. Put the peas in boil water for 30 seconds, water turn to green color.
2. After consumption check your tongue to observe green color stains and light bitter in taste.
Symptoms
1. Stomach irritation, pain or acidity. 2. Urine turns to light green color. 3. Mild head ache.
Case study:
I am a common person too and not aware of these things. After consumption of fake green peas I got stomach pain, with a little bit common sense I observed my tongue which having green stains.
The following packet bought from Tesco, Penang on 4th July 2010.
As a responsible chemist I started analysis of above mentioned peas in laboratory I find the toxic chemicals (green dyes).
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