Slicksta is not in beta

There was a segment on NPR last week about the fishing industry. Needless to say, Slicksta was a little dismayed at what he heard:

• Wild salmon get their orange flesh from a pigment in the krill they eat. Farm raised salmon are fed an artificial pigment to match this color. Their flesh would be light gray otherwise.
• Fish suppliers sometimes pump carbon monoxide into tuna flesh to keep it bright red. The carbon monoxide reverses the natural oxidation process that turns the tuna’s flesh spotty and brown.
• “Chilean Sea Bass” is the marketing name invented to boost sales of the unfortunately named “Patagonian Toothfish”

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