Re:World’s first octopus farm stirs ethical debate
by bane on Friday February 25, 2022 @02:03AM
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Nah, by fresh I mean caught, loaded from a boat onto a truck with ice and driven to its destination.
The miracle of the National Highway System makes Boston to San Diego a 50 hour possibility. Surely the people of Springfield Missouri would be fine with iced, fresh, 20 hour old fish caught off the coast of Connecticut! You can get an entire boat of fish from the Gulf Coast to Kansas City same day by road.
Delaware to Louisville is what 8 hours? But why bother, fresh mussels from Lake Erie don't even have to leave the state, can by caught in the morning after breakfast and eaten for lunch a couple hours later.
The Highway System is almost a century old. That's a few generations time to change preferences.
Re:World’s first octopus farm stirs ethical debate
by seanmcdirmid on Friday February 25, 2022 @10:11AM
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Flash freezing is required by the FDA for eaten raw seafood no matter how fresh it is. It has been since the 90s I think. Flash freezing is used throughout the world on most seafood these days sans a few old school Japanese institutions.
Because everything undergoes flash freezing in the boat anyways, 8 hours or 8 days isn’t going to matter much.
Flash freezing is relatively new technology (I assume that’s what you mean by “fresh”). It is not surprising midwesterners go all out on sushi (the real kind, not Californian roles) just because the logistics are easier now. Food is local because it has been that way for the last hundred or so years.