I don’t usually eat seafood. Many people find this strange, since I’m so passionate about this project.
Last night, I ate fish for the first time this year. I had the grilled Mahi Mahi that the school served. As I ate it, I realized how much this project was affecting me. I began to wonder whether I could taste the difference between Mahi Mahi and Yellowtail, or if they have different textures. I eat seafood so rarely that I honestly can't recognise what I ate. I can barely tell raw fish apart.
I guess that just fuels my indignation at having to worry about what fish I’m eating.
My school works very closely with the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch program, and we are given lots of information about sustainable seafood. But I still worry. If top-tier restaurants will commit fish fraud, what’s to say my school won’t?
To work with this, I’ve shared my project with the woman who runs our dining hall. She’s helping me make contacts with Seafood Watch. I don’t think she would intentionally serve us substituted seafood, but the companies that provide our seafood might.
Yet another reason to keep blogging…
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