1 hour ago, blue_dolphin said:
The farmed shrimp we’ve gotten was from TransparentSea Farm, an operation that’s currently on hiatus as they purchase land and build to expand. They raise the shrimp entirely indoors in tanks and provide fresh, head-on shrimp only hours out of the water. Why do you feel such shrimp should be avoided?
I don’t, if it’s farmed like that. There was a place in the Hudson River Valley, called Eco Shrimp Farm, that was doing similar, and selling their product at the green market. I tried it a couple of times, and didn’t think it compared to some of the wild product I can get. And they now appear to have closed permanently. Another place, called Hudson Valley Fishery, farms steelhead trout with recirculating aquaculture, and it’s good stuff.
The shrimp I avoid is farmed far away, and probably not that great when one thinks of its environmental footprint. And it tastes like crap, so there’s that.
I’ll stick to my guns and only use wild seafood when at home. And I try hard to do the same when dining out. For example, I’m not buying tilapia to cook at home. and I’m not ordering it in a restaurant either.
