Well, I never read so much about food scandal as I did this
week. The world’s most famous Swedish meatballs, those sold to bleary-eyed
shoppers at Ikea, were found to contain horsemeat at outlets in 14 European
countries. Organic eggs in Germany turn out to have been laid by battery hens
fattened on distinctly non-organic feed. And in the USA, a new study using DNA
analysis has found that “seafood fraud” is rampant on our very own shores. One
frequent stand-in for what sushi restaurants call “tuna” is actually a cheaper,
oily fish called escolar, which can give you explosive diarrhea. And the odds
that you’ll get real red snapper in a restaurant or at the supermarket are
about 1 in 16, or roughly the same as Gonzaga Universities chances of winning
this month’s NCAA men’s basketball
championship.
