On 3/31/2011 3:15 PM, Janet Bostwick wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 10:07:33 -0700, Ranée at Arabian Knits
> > wrote:
>
>> In >,
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Sure, talapia is a poor substitute for cod,
>>> but eating it ain't gonna turn our oceans into a sterile wasteland
>>> that will end life as we know it on this floating rock.
>>
>> Again, why eat a poor substitute? I'd rather have no fish than bad
>> fish.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ranee @ Arabian Knits
>>
> That would be a good choice then for you. Eat no fish. I cannot
> trust you to be an arbiter of my taste, nor should you insist that
> anything other than what you like is the only thing that is good.


Who, born in the first part of the last century, would have thought that
sea fish like cod would cost more than steak? I also remember skate,
which was practically given away, is highly prized nowadays. Come to
think of it, kippers (smoked herring) were very inexpensive when I was
young.


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