标题: 关于Basa fish (开个新贴). [打印本页] 作者: adelle 时间: 27-10-2009 13:20 标题: 关于Basa fish (开个新贴). Don’t Eat this fish: Pangas (Pangasius, Vietnamese River Cobbler, White Catfish, Gray Sole)
fish pangas in france urine fed
Cheap cheap fish! The above is an ad (from one of the large supermarket chains in France) for the fish known as Pangas (also called, Pangasius, Vietnamese River Cobbler, Basa Fish and White Catfish, Tra, Gray Sole). It was a reminder to tell you about the dangers of this strange but increasingly popular fish. I learned about them and how they’re raised a while ago on an informative documentary online here: Documentary about Pangas. (which is in French. If you don’t speak French, read below.)
Would the French call it Poisson ou poison?
Industrially farmed in Vietnam along the Mekong River, Pangas or whatever they’re calling it, has only been recently introduced to the French market. However, in a very short amount of time, it has grown in popularity in France. The French are slurping up Pangas like it’s their last meal of soup noodles. They are very, very affordable (cheap), are sold in filets with no bones and they have a neutral (bland) flavor and texture; many would compare it to cod and sole, only much cheaper. But as tasty as some people may find it, there’s, in fact, something hugely unsavory about it. I hope the information provided here will serve as very important information for you and your future choices. Here’s why I think it is better left in the shops (and not on your dinner plates):
pile of fish
1. Pangas are teeming with high levels of poisons and bacteria. (industrial effluents, arsenic, and toxic and hazardous by-products of the growing industrial sector, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), DDT and its metabolites (DDTs), metal contaminants, chlordane-related compounds (CHLs), hexachlorocyclohexane isomers (HCHs), and hexachlorobenzene (HCB)). The reasons are that the Mekong River is one of the most polluted rivers on the planet and this is where pangas are farmed and industries along the river dump chemicals and industrial waste directly into it. To Note: a friend lab tests these fish and tells us to avoid eating them due to high amounts of contamination. Regardless of the reports and recommendations against selling them, the supermarkets still sell them to the general public knowing they are contaminated.
2. They freeze Pangas in contaminated river water. Ew.
dirty river water at farms for pangas
3. Pangas are not environmentally sustainable, a most unsustainable food you could possibly eat - “Buy local” means creating the least amount of environmental harm as possible. This is the very opposite end of the spectrum of sustainable consumerism. Pangas are raised in Vietnam. Pangas are fed food that comes from Peru (more on that below), their hormones (which are injected into the female Pangas) come from China. (More about that below) and finally, they are transported from Vietnam to France. That’s not just a giant carbon foot print, that’s a carbon continent of a foot print.
4. There’s nothing natural about Pangas - They’re fed dead fish remnants and bones, dried and ground into a flour, from South America, manioc (cassava) and residue from soy and grains. This kind of nourishment doesn’t even remotely resemble what they eat in nature. But what it does resemble is the method of feeding mad cows (cows were fed cows, remember?) What they feed pangas is completely unregulated so there are most likely other dangerous substances and hormones thrown into the mix. The pangas grow at a speed light (practically!): 4 times faster than in nature…so it makes you wonder what exactly is in their food? Your guess is as good as mine.
pangas are injected with dehydrated pee from pregnant women
5. Pangas are Injected with Hormones Derived from Urine - I don’t know how someone came up with this one out but they’ve discovered that if they inject female Pangas with hormones made from the dehydrated urine of pregnant women, the female Pangas grow much quicker and produce eggs faster (one Panga can lay approximately 500,000 eggs at one time). Essentially, they’re injecting fish with hormones (they come all of the way from a pharmaceutical company in China) to speed up the process of growth and reproduction. That isn’t good. Some of you might not mind eating fish injected with dehydrated pee so if you don’t good for you, but just consider the rest of the reasons to NOT eat it.
6. You get what you pay for - and then some. Don’t be lured in by insanely cheap price of Pangas. Is it worth risking your health and the health of your family?
7. Buying Pangas supports unscrupulous, greedy evil corporations and food conglomerates that don’t care about the health and well-being of human beings. They only are concerned about selling as many pangas as possible to unsuspecting consumers. These corporations only care about selling and making more money at whatever cost to the public.8. Pangas will make you sick - If (for reasons in #1 above) you don’t get immediately ill with vomiting, diarrhea and effects from severe food poisoning, congratulations, you have an iron stomach! But you’re still ingesting POISON not poisson.Final important note: Because of the prodigious amount of availability of Pangas, be warned that they will certainly find their way into other foods: surimi (those pressed fish things, imitation crab sticks), fish sticks, fish terrines, and probably in some pet foods. (Warn your dogs and cats and hamsters and gerbils and even your pet fish!)
Watch this Report on Pangas (in French) (Video excerpt from Capitale on M6, which aired about 3 months ago)
Links: Buying fish in France, Le Panga, nouvelle abération de la 作者: adelle 时间: 27-10-2009 13:21
美味河鲜竟是毒鱼?
Basa is a fresh water fish, farmed mainly in the Mekong River system of Vietnam. It is one the world's most successful aquaculture species - and is rapidly becoming one of the most popular fish in Europe, north America - and Australia.
These fast growing fish produce large white fillets with no bones, flesh that is moist with a light firm texture, and a mild fish flavour - exactly the combination preferred by most Australians. This makes Basa one of the most versatile species we have: ideal for restaurant or take-away meals, but equally suitable as a table fish to cook at home using a multitude of recipes and cooking styles.
Basa is often presented in retail outlets already prepared in a variety of flavoured marinades, ready to cook and eat within minutes.
The name Basa was chosen by the Australian Fish Names Committee as the approved Standard marketing Australian name. It is derived from the local (Vietnamese) word for the species. Names such as Pacific Dory or Catfish are incorrect.
What Are The Growing Conditions For Basa?
Basa are grown in one of the most suitable environments for fish farming found anywhere in the world. The Mekong River (from which drains much of the Himalayan snow melt) has one of the largest consistent flows of fresh, clean water on the planet. Australian environmental scientists working for the Mekong River Commission, which monitors water quality at over 50 sites, confirm that testing over the past 15 years shows no serious contamination of the river - partly because there is little industry in its catchment, and partly because of its large flow. It is one of the cleanest of the world's large rivers. Claims that the Mekong River is seriously contaminated have been overwhelmingly refuted by those Australian scientists working in the region.
How Safe Is Basa?
Behind Vietnam's farmed fish export trade is a modern, multi-billion dollar industry that applies the highest levels of global science and technology in the entire chain of its safe food production - essential to enable it to compete in highly regulated and fastidious western markets. The processing factories that produce fish for export to Australia are at the cutting edge of modern technology and are accredited to the highest levels of international food safety.
In addition, the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service (AQIS) service rigorously tests all arriving shipments of fish for a range of potential contaminants, prior to release. This multi-tier food safety system ensures consumers have no need to be concerned about product quality or food safety - and this is frequently confirmed by Australia's highest food safety authority: Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ).
Why Do We Need To Import Basa?
Australia's demand for seafood currently exceeds, by about double, the production capacity of our wild catch fisheries and our aquaculture industries. This is because Australia's wild fish resources have reached (and currently exceed) sustainable levels, and because our aquaculture industries are still in their infancy. modest component of seafood in their diet. This is not a new development - Australia has been importing much of its seafood for over 50 years.
As Australia's population grows, our reliance on imports will also grow. It's lucky that we have access to aquaculture species such as Basa, which not only provide a healthy and affordable replacement, but are sustainable in the long term - protecting Australia's (and the world's) wild fish stocks from depletion.
As a result, we need to import more than half of our annual requirement to enable all Australians to maintain even a modest component of fish in their diet.
Why Is Basa So Cheap?
Basa are very fast growing fish - so the cost of raising them is far less than for many other farmed species. When ready, Basa are easily harvested, and most farms are located inshore - close to processing factories. So there is no need to maintain large fishing fleets whose costs have been driven up in recent years by rising fuel prices, enormous license and quota fees, and the need to travel vast distances of ocean to find fewer and fewer fish. That's why aquaculure is so important to the world's future sustainable fish supply.
Is Basa A Healthy Choice Meal
Like most fish, Basa is high protein and low fat. These 'good' fats contain Omega-3. The regular consumption of fish (2 or 3 meals a week) is linked to significantly reduced risk of heart disease, stroke, bowel cancer and the prevention or mitigation of numerous other life threatening or debilitating illnesses. It is now well established that, in general, people who eat fish regularly, live longer and healthier lives.
The Heart Foundation recommends eating fish twice a week, and Basa is a great choice to fulfil this requirement.
Don't Believe Everything You Hear on TV
In early 2006, Channel 7's Today Tonight ran two programs depicting appalling growing conditions for aquaculture fish in Vietnam. The footage showed small 'cottage industry' farms growing fish for local consumption, focussing on polluted waterways and drains in urban areas. This is NOT where Basa, sold in Australia, is grown.
Although the reporter stated "this is where your fish and chips comes from", the footage did not represent the region's ultra-modern, multi-billion dollar Basa export industry. Even Food Standards Australia New Zealand described the information in the Today Tonight reports as "unreliable". The ABC's Media Watch has a special section on its website dedicated to misleading reports by the same Today Tonight reporter, titled The 'Sluggo' Files. It's worth a look!作者: akaka 时间: 7-1-2011 13:51
海鱼满世界游,哪有什么产地安全不安全的说法,除非不吃,河鱼既然能进口也吃不死人,少吃点就是了。在国内无监管无食品安全的环境下这么多年都活过来了,到这边有监管了反而变娇气了?作者: jiayan1412 时间: 7-1-2011 14:44
看来以后要少吃点了。作者: fatfrog 时间: 7-1-2011 16:04 http://www.ourpatch.com.au/austr ... 21-truth-about-basa
在google上也搜了也相关信息,好坏参半吧。没找到什么科学的评估
Do you love your fish and chips? Whilst not as popular as some other takeaway choices, Australians still spend over fifty million dollars each year on fish and chips. However, what you may be getting wrapped in batter may not even be a fish as classified under the rules for kosher or acceptable foods according to the Jewish faith. If it does not have scales it is not a fish they say.
So what is this non fish? Mekong River catfish otherwise called Basa or Pacific Dory is a fish with no scales in the conventional sense. According to the Master Fish Merchants Association Basa is now Australia’s biggest selling fish.
There is much misinformation spread about Basa. You may have received one of those “Shock Horror Probe “emails or even watched an item on Channel Seven about the production via aquaculture of Basa in Vietnam. Much of this originated as a result of concerns from big business, the North American catfish farmers as well as travelers returning from the new in vogue destination.
The cheap catfish arriving from Vietnam was a serious threat to the locally farmed product in the United States. The introduction of misleading information about the competition was a good initial defense of the lucrative local business. To gain credibility and collect damming evidence a group of US catfish farmers travelled to Vietnam to see the aquaculture set up first hand.
"We thought we'd find them growing fish in polluted water and processing them in crude plants...but that's not what we found. We came back scared to death."
Travelers to Vietnam and other countries of South East Asia returned with stories of farmed fish feeding on human effluent. The farming of Basa has been done for years by locals where often a cage is held under the boat on which they live to house their Basa crop. The fact is Basa supplied for export is produced under strictly controlled conditions in circumstances far removed from the humble peasant growing his own.
Why do we need Basa when Australia has the largest coastline of any country in the world? Unfortunately seventy five percent of the world’s fisheries are over fished. To keep up with demand over half of the fish now consumed worldwide is derived from aquaculture according to the authors of a study published in the “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences” in 2009. Around fifty percent of the fish consumed in Australia is of overseas origin as local production can not meet demand. Basa is an excellent choice of fish to farm as it grows quickly and is inexpensive.
A faster growing catfish with the common name Tra with has a poorer quality flesh is now gaining sway. Check the labeling; tra could be labeled either Basa catfish, Mekong catfish or Pangas catfish. True Basa can be labeled Basa, Bocourti or Basa bocourti.
The bottom line is “Is Basa safe to eat?” Vietnam is set to produce up to a million tones of catfish every year and exports to one hundred and twenty eight countries. Most countries have stringent quality controls similar to those employed by our own Australian Quarantine & Inspection Service.
The number of Tra and Basa catfish processing establishments is about one hundred and twenty. They all meet strict food hygiene and safety conditions laid down by the controlling bodies within Vietnam. The facilities are regularly inspected by experts from receiving nations such as the United States, Korea, the European Union and Australia.
The demand for fish continues to grow as the consumption of fish is linked to a lower rate of cardiovascular disease. However recommendations by the Food Standards Australia New Zealand( FSANZ) says for most people two to three servings of fish per week is fine but only one serving of shark/flake or billfish such as swordfish per week owing to concerns regarding levels of mercury. For pregnant women the recommendations are more stringent. Two to three serves per week for most fish but only one serve per week of orange roughy/ deep sea perch and catfish/Basa/Tra and no other fish that week. With shark/flake and Billfish, this drops to only one serve per fortnight with no other fish to be eaten in that time.
The levels of Omega 3 fatty acids, the source of the health benefit to the heart varies within different fish species. The nutritional data base NUTTAB 2006 developed by FSANZ provides the following analysis for Omega 3 fatty acids;
Smoked cod steamed 302mg per 100grams.
fish finger 161mg,
Australian tinned salmon in brine then drained 2456mg,
sardines in oil drained 2511,
Basa fillet steamed just 69mg.
However, fish is high in protein and low in saturated fat so it is not just all about Omega 3.
In Coffs Harbour, Trevor at the Jetty Village Takeaway has a few choices but no Basa. The whiting is fantastic. Whiting is also a recommended fish by The Australian Marine Conservation Society as a sustainable, non stressed fishery. Bream and flathead are other good choices based on their recommendations.
The Bray Street Takeaway has a varied choice dependent on price but Basa is not one of them. Flake was on offer the day I was there.
Another shop when questioned as to which fish was the fish in the fish in chips? ” Dunno! It comes in a box”
The fish and chip shop in Tugun on the Gold Coast was the first taste I had of Basa. It was edible but bland. Immemorable except for the fact it was the first time. In hindsight I suspect we are treating it the wrong way. What about these offerings from some restaurants where cooking catfish is commonplace;
The Asiatique Restaurant in Louisville, Kentucky offers Wok Seared Spiced Rubbed Basa with Citrus Reduction.
At the Port Edward in Algonquin, Illinois Basa is given a Thai twist and served with peanut sauce.
In California the Soule Domain restaurant serves pan-roasted Vietnamese Basa over noodles in Asian broth with bok choy, ginger and shitake mushrooms.
Basa is not the beast. It is relatively inexpensive, is produced via aquaculture in well controlled conditions for the fish and the environment, is one of the exports that is helping to grow a country once ravaged by war and whilst not brimming with Omega 3 is nonetheless a low calorie food if not coated in a fatty casing. When in Rome do as the Romans do. I will be dancing the Asian waltz next time I take Basa out for dinner.