Tilapia is one of the most common grocery store fillets, and At Chen Qiang’s tilapia farm in Vietnam, your next seafood dish is being grown.
Exactly how close to the pig feces that fish came before it reached your plate, well that’s anyone’s guess. Studies have shown that the fish feed used to grow these fish is more than frequently contaminated with salmonella.
Consider that eight percent of the shrimp we eat comes from Vietnam and 27 percent of our seafood comes from nearby China.
Apparently, both countries use manure to feed the fish that is frequently contaminated, according to Michael Doyle, director of the University of Georgia’s Center for Food Safety. The seafood and shellfish that comes from both countries is far too often contaminated with nearby toxic and sickening waste. According to Bloomberg News, fierce competition in the seafood market has created the unhealthy practices.
