Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Careless sea-foodie-ism

Gristmill (March 23)

"Until that happens, there's an urgent need to educate the public about the dismal state of the oceans. The effort starts with food journalists -- people who have a direct impact on the public imagination about fish.

It seems to me that food journalists have generally failed at this task. I see examples all the time of foodie articles blithely extolling the culinary virtues of this or that fish species, without considering the impact of consuming them.

The oceans have become too fragile for careless foodie-ism."

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