On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:30:57 -0500, Sqwertz >
wrote:

>On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 21:15:25 -0600, Janet Bostwick wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 21:48:41 -0500, Sqwertz >
>> wrote:
>>
>> Imperial Valley.
>>>
>>>It might come from a Motel 6 bathtub, too. Find me a label that says
>>>the source is the Imperial Valley in the supermarket.
>>>
>>>99.5% of the Tilapia comes from Asia.
>>
>> My Costco labels country of origin. Honduras or US
>
>My CostCo would never sell Tilapia. Not to mention it's illegal to
>label something with Country of Origin labeling that contains
>countries from two different continents.
>
>If it said "Hondorus or Panama", then OK (do I have my geography
>right? :-)
>
>So you might have some of that other .5%. I'm sure others are getting
>into the trash fish farming industry lately, so my figures be
>slightly outdated, I'll give you that.
>
>Not that it really matters where it came from anyway. What was your
>point, that I may be slightly wrong by 2% <gasp>, or that it's not a
>trash fish (that can taste good?) I've already said that.
>
>"82% of people do not brush their teeth at night".
>
>How much to you want to bet those other 18% are going to get indignant
>and sure as hell are going to post about it to try and prove it's not
>true?
>
>-sw

As long as we are piciking nits, my Costco sometimes has tilapia from
Honduras and sometimes from the US and they are labeled individually
as to country of origin. In fact, every supermarket or purveyor of
fish in my city labels specifically as to country of origin.
Janet