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The folks over at Grist, an environmental watchdog blog, have taken Mark Bittman -- a cook and food writer for The New York Times whose work boasts a huge, passionate following including the Grist blogger himself -- to task for listing red snapper, a fish many consider endangered, in one of his recipes. A fascinating conversation follows in the comments section including a response from Bittman (aka The Minimalist) himself. Check it out -- but maybe not over a fish dinner, as you may lose your appetite.
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4-10-2009 @2:51AM BraH said... Snapper is still allowed to be caught by all states that border the Gulf, at a limit of no more than two per day for most. It's still available, completely legally, but not abundant. It's a delicious fish, having caught and eaten one myself years ago off Corpus Christi.
This so-called watchdog group is a mass of alarmists looking for a reason to manipulate information like this to "raise awareness" (read: never let a crisis go to waste). Pure propoganda when exposed to the light of common sense and reason, and the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
One wonders, what if a prominent food critic reviewed a european or asian dish containing equine or canine meat? It's consumed, and must be good to support the amount of feedlot equines we export; read up on the drug Premarin. Will our sensibilities ever evolve to the point of being able to accept the consumption of low-population or locally taboo meat?
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4-10-2009 @8:31AM Lydia said... It appears that BraH has not read the linked story or resultant commentary/discussions, but is simply blowing it off as "propaganda." Consumption of regional delicacies (such as canine/equine meat) or legality of catching the fish are not the issues at hand here, it is about stewardship and conservation of aquatic species, and in the article, much more than snapper are discussed, so I'm not going to reiterate the arguments here. One thing I would like to point out if you don't make it all the way through the comments is the point that recreational fishing (like the 2 per person pointed out above) actually deplete snapper populations far more than commercial endeavors.
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