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Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 3:25 PM
Subject: Re: [AMAZON] any frozen fish w/o toxic additives?


> What upsets me is that five years ago I used to be able to buy frozen fish
> from big-name suppliers without the additive in my regular grocery store,
> and now even the natural food stores can't find a source of non-additive
> frozen fish. Fish markets can't guarantee no-additives because a lot of
> their fish is previously frozen too. I guess one company controls the
> world's supply of frozen fish and they have decided we all should ingest
the
> additive. There is no choice, no competition. A lot of this preservative
> salt is shovelled into the bins of dead fish right on the factory
trawlers.
> No one is making sure the concentration is within the safe limit. It's all
> automated with dead-tired fishermen and processing line people working
round
> the clock when the nets are lifted. They probably can't even afford to buy
> the dam fish themselves from their grocery store when they get home. But
> there it is on TV and magazines: "Eat fish for good health". Yeah, the
> health of the additive company.
>
> Big Agro-Grocer must have decided that the growing millions who get ill
from
> these additives don't represent a significant market share. If the
> government says it is safe and food-grade, who cares about our complaints?
>