Is It Tuna?

It is becoming more and more obvious that we can cannot trust the labels that Babylon the Great puts on its food. 

I personally came across this last year when I ate "Julian bread." It was supposed to be a high fiber, low carb bread. It turned out that they had, well, made a mistake. Their new line may be low carb, my guess would be it is, but it is no longer high fiber--and it tastes like cardboard. To me it does not matter now anyway as I no longer eat wheat because I am sensitive to it.

Much of the fish you buy is not labeled correctly. A mistake no doubt. 

Oceana.org comments:

Of the most commonly collected fish types, samples sold as snapper and tuna had the highest mislabeling rates (87 and 59 percent, respectively), with the majority of the samples identified by DNA analysis as something other than what was found on the label. In fact, only seven of the 120 samples of red snapper purchased nationwide were actually red snapper. The other 113 samples were another fish.

While I do not know anything about Oceana, this is a meme that has gotten a lot of traction lately. I am sure that with the strong financial incentive, the idea of adding lower quality fish is quite tempting. If you have some fish that usually has zero market value, and add it to your tuna...well, it doubles your income. 

As I am trying to increase my fish consumption, this is of great interest to me. (As an aside in our "low inflation" world, wild smoked salmon from Trader Joe's just went up $1 a pound.) 

Sorry, but I have no solution for you. As for me, I have stopped buying canned tuna, as the fish that is most commonly used to replace real tuna is quite disgusting, and in some people can cause digestive problems including anal leakage. I think I will pass, so I don't pass anything I would rather not. 

To paraphrase Socrates, Know Thy Food.