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    Think again about eating sushi



    http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1096495810288&call_pageid=968256290204&col=968350116795&tacodalogin=no


    "What's eating Toronto sushi lovers who are feeling the long reach of the province's regulatory tentacles now that it has decided that all the fish used in sushi must be frozen first?

    The short answer: could be anisakis, eustrongylides, diphyllobothorium or other nematodes.

    To find out more about these sushi garnishes that are not on the menu, we visited the Web site of Tokyo's Meguro Parasite Museum, which prides itself on a diphyllobothorium specimen — a tapeworm — that is eight metres long.

    The museum also features a parasite of the month. In March, 1996, the winner was anisakis, a worm that is "a major health hazard associated with the eating of raw fish."

    The disease it causes, anisakiasis, is not confined to Japan but is showing up in other countries where people like eating sushi or sashimi.

    In a 1994 study conducted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, researchers found that in 32 Seattle sushi restaurants it sampled, 10 per cent of the salmon contained parasites. The risk of disease may not be as small as many people think.

    There is still a chance — unless the sushi has been frozen — that these worms will bite back."
    For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)
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  • #2
    You live in Hollywood and are gay and are thinking twice about eating sushi?
    We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. - Abraham Lincoln

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    • #3
      Gub'mint regUlashun is bad!
      Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Ted Striker
        You live in Hollywood and are gay and are thinking twice about eating sushi?
        I don't eat sushi in the first place. I already knew about these possible occurances. I want my food cooked.
        For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)

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        • #5
          I love sushi -- a friend introduced me to it over a year ago.
          A lot of Republicans are not racist, but a lot of racists are Republican.

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          • #6
            Sushi is gorgeous, if somewhat expensive
            "I work in IT so I'd be buggered without a computer" - Words of wisdom from Provost Harrison
            "You can be wrong AND jewish" - Wiglaf :love:

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            • #7
              It's all about the wasabi
              We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. - Abraham Lincoln

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              • #8
                *insert troll about how japanese eating of raw fish is barbaric*
                B♭3

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Ted Striker
                  It's all about the wasabi
                  Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by MrFun
                    I love sushi -- a friend introduced me to it over a year ago.
                    You ever consider possible problems with that?
                    For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)

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                    • #11
                      Sushi is well-tasting, easily digestible and damn healthy for you.

                      I eat it all the time.

                      The only people who get those parasites are those who are becoming increasingly afraid of them

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Monk
                        Sushi is well-tasting, easily digestible and damn healthy for you.

                        I eat it all the time.

                        The only people who get those parasites are those who are becoming increasingly afraid of them
                        What about the 10% of salmon that is infected with parasites? Government study I believe...
                        For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)

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                        • #13
                          i actually like sushi. of course, it's mostly because with sushi, i get to eat lots of wasabi, which is where it's at...

                          ted striker
                          wasabi

                          wasabi's like any spice, though. you'd probably not want to hit it.
                          B♭3

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                          • #14
                            Well if you get parasites don't come back to me complaining...
                            For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Giancarlo
                              What about the 10% of salmon that is infected with parasites? Government study I believe...
                              What about it?

                              I've eaten sushi for years now, or at least in the periods of my life where I could afford it. I've never had a parasite infection, and even if I had, sure it would be disgusting, but it's not like a tapeworm or two would actually kill you.

                              Actually I haven't eaten anything today apart from the massive sushi box I bought at the supermarket, and I still feel great - like if sushi and myself were meant to be together.

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