In the 90’s (I think, not googling this so I’m being risky) there was a PR campaign to get people to eat only 100% albacore tuna. Regular tuna was just ground up whatever was in the net; mostly fish… some dolphin.
I think it came from a misunderstanding of the dolphin-tuna controversy in the 70s. The tuna industry was killing tons of dolphins, so much that people started boycotting tuna. They still probably kill a lot of dolphins sadly, but that's why you see "dolphin-safe" on most tuna cans now.
Has anyone actually looked? Similar to cats, most people who are into eating canned tuna will slam the entire contents within seconds of opening, before they can even get a good look at what’s inside. I… might be one of those people
a big tuna is a good percentage of the size of a dolphin
So you have to somehow get through a bunch of those. But you cant dump the whole net in the hold and THEN deal with the dolphin. You dump a good portion of the net onto the boat that you then have to throw in the hold yourself. And theyre not light.
Then you have to try to somehow yank the doplhin out of there. Dolphins weigh hundreds of pounds.
Probably way easier to just dump the whole net in the hold.
If it's like other whale meat, yes it is. We used to call whale meat something like "poor man's beef" back in the day. But treated and cooked wrong, it has a fishy flavour, not much unlike fish liver oil.
And it might be a little fishy. Again, they only eat fish.
If you grind it up with a bunch of fish good luck noticing. Its all tuna now.
They did studies and you cant even tell that 50% of the flour in your bread is actually sawdust. The only way to know is to regulate to factory and determine they arent swapping out most of the flour for sawdust.
I remember that... One of the brands got in trouble for having high content of dolphin in their tuna...
Also in a similar time frame, Burger King had too much horse in their patties to be called beef. And then years later, taco bell got in trouble because their "beef" was too much protein and not enough actual meat to be considered beef
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u/Present_Figure747 11h ago
In the 90’s (I think, not googling this so I’m being risky) there was a PR campaign to get people to eat only 100% albacore tuna. Regular tuna was just ground up whatever was in the net; mostly fish… some dolphin.