Support the "Good Fish, Slow Food" picture book, buy a fish that can be eaten in the future
When I was little, my mother would always say that I had to eat more fish so my eyes would be bright and I would grow up smart. I believed it too, until one day, a report said that "eating fish is not necessarily healthier"...
In seaside households, a meal is not a meal without fish on the table. But that day, Grandma said, "Good grandson, we caught very few fish today, they are too expensive, your father cannot afford them."
The captains who had just come into port gathered together, smoking in gloomy silence, drinking millet wine and cursing, "The fish we caught does not even cover the fuel money."
Fish have become fewer, more expensive, and also full of chemicals and heavy metals. This is a warning sign that ocean Taiwan is sick.
We often hear that bluefin tuna is on the verge of extinction, but we cannot even necessarily tell what a bluefin tuna looks like
We really know very little about the ocean; and about seafood, even if we eat a lot of it, we still know very little.
(Come on! Test your seafood IQ)
Quick Q&A One: Suppose you go to the market today to buy fish. How do you judge which fish to buy?
Ask the vendor, "Which fish is fresher today?" "For steaming, which one is suitable?" Probably something like that!
Quick Q&A Two: Hmm, then, what if you are buying fish at the supermarket?
The fish are all packaged one by one, fillet by fillet, and the nearby staff all look very "young", so you cannot ask them either. You can only look at the label, "Hmm, the date is newer, I will take this pack." (Pretending to be calm.)
Quick Q&A Three: But, that date on the label, what date is it exactly?
Is it the date the fish was caught? The date it was shipped from the packing plant? Or the date it was put on the shelf at the store? Uh... really confusing (why are you telling me all this? Anxiously clutching my head).
Quick Q&A Four: There are so many fish, and they all look so similar. If a seller passes off skipjack tuna as tuna, flounder as cod, or catfish as bream, would we be able to know?
…………………….(Shaking my head)
Hey, have you noticed that some fish are getting more and more expensive? Some fish really have become so few, and so expensive, that we cannot afford them. Will children in the future really still be able to eat fish and grow up big and strong? Scientists say that by 2048, most fish in the ocean will disappear!!
…………………(Eyes wide open)
And also, why is it that we already know to demand transparency in food production processes, but when it comes to seafood, we still have no way of knowing where this fish came from? How it was caught? When it was caught? Is this not our right to know?
Oh heavens! Good fish, where are you? (Hand in hand, one step, two steps, three steps, four steps, looking at the sky..)
