<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> I followed the discussion on the gf-status of beef with considerable interest. I wonder if a similar problem could arise with catfish; every time I've eaten it, it tasted awful, smelled "wrong" and made me ill. I've given up on catfish entirely, no matter how many people tell me its flesh is sweet and delicious these days, now that they farm-raise them. (People used to push "delicious" whole-wheat muffins at me too. Even before I knew I was wheat intolerant, I thought they were awful, like eating lousy-tasting bricks. Catfish affects me similarly.) Well, I saw a tv ad for farm-raised catfish, all about how delicious they were, and how they only eat the best grain diet, and a big dump truck pours what looks like kibble into the water. (Actually, I like the ad, it has lots of humorous touches; it closes with a string quartet playing in a boat at sunset, presumably to keep the fish happy.) But if these catfish, and perhaps other farm-raised fish, are fed a grain-based diet, would they possibly have gluten in their flesh? I've heard that fish often have any contaminants in the fatty parts, especially. I don't have any trouble with other fish or seafood (except that imitation crabmeat stuff, which I found out often uses flour to hold together), and I eat quite a bit of other fish, mostly coldwater fish like smelt or herring, so I don't miss the catfish that much, but I'm curious. Perhaps I'm just allergic to catfish for some other reason. Thanks in advance, Bobbi in Baltimore