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Sushi Often Not What You Think (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - That tuna in your sushi might be an endangered species, a new study finds. » Full Story on Yahoo! News

I know exactly what Sushi is - Bait!

posted Nov 20, 2009 |
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God I love Sushi. I wish I could catch 10 huge Bluefin myself. I would eat one and retire from the sale of the other nine.

posted Nov 20, 2009 |
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bluefin tuna, an endangered fish, regularly gets put on the plates of sushi eaters in New York

Now you know how the menu term "Blue Plate Special" came into being. At Bens Kosher Deli on 38th Street it's called the "Jew Plate Special".

posted Nov 20, 2009 |
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Hey watch how you say the word TUNA, please; I have to borrow one from the Chick Filet Cows "EAT MORE CHIKEN".

posted Nov 20, 2009 |
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I could live on sushi. What's it about when it's endangered makes it taste sooooooooo good!

posted Nov 20, 2009 |
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"All the fish in the tuna group (the Thunnus genus) are more closely related to each other than humans are to chimpanzees,"

Wow, tuna are more closely related to each other than humans and apes? Who would have ever thought.

posted Nov 20, 2009 |
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""When you eat sushi, you can unknowingly get a critically endangered species on your plate," said Jacob Lowenstein, a graduate student affiliated with the American Museum of Natural History in New York and Columbia University. "But with an increasingly popular technique, DNA barcoding, it is a simple process for researchers to see just what species are eaten at a sushi bar."

this could give rise to a whole new specialty-forensic dietary science-investigating who is guilty of eating an endangered species.
"Just shitinthe sack, ma'am" could soon be part of the everyday talk of cops.

posted Nov 21, 2009 |
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I love sushit but I won't eat the tuna because the population needs to recover. It won't happen if people keep being SELFISH and eating them.. The extinction of this species won't be on my conscience. Nothing tastes *that* good.

posted Nov 21, 2009 |
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