Iceland’s Quest to Use 100 Percent of Its Fish Waste

Re:Iceland’s Quest to Use 100 Percent of Its Fish Waste by klyrs on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @11:03AM (#36787628)

> But Oddsson’s life was spared by an ingenious invention: grafted cod skin—7,000 square centimeters of it. The procedure adorned Oddsson’s upper body with the permanent, distinct imprint of scales.

This is so metal. But also, very "pirates of the Caribbean." For a member of a fishing community, I can see how this would be a lauded badge of pride. I do wonder how it would play out in the rest of the world, especially if fish skin is cheap and pig skin is not, it seems like this would be avoided like the plague by image-conscious patients.

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Re:Iceland’s Quest to Use 100 Percent of Its Fish Waste by ingigauti on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @11:28AM (#36788024)

Not sure if it is cheaper but according to the founder (paraphrasing from a podcast he was on in Iceland)

The pig skin has possible viruses that can infect the human body, so they need to dip it into an acid to kill any potential infection, this destroys the pig skin. With cod living in different temperature, they don't have these viruses so they only need to dip into salt water to "clean" it, the cod skin keeps intact and therefore works better

The human body accepts the cod skin as normal skin since it's basically same at molecular level, because of evolution

Fascinating

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Re:Iceland’s Quest to Use 100 Percent of Its Fish Waste by klyrs on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @01:29PM (#36790102)

Sigh. The way they wrote that is indeed misleading. What a shame.

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