If necessity is the mother of ingenuity, what is desperation? Perhaps shes the aunt who talks a little too loudly at family functions and whose stories dont always mesh with the facts but you put up with her cause well… you sort of have to.

It looks like Aunt Desperation has launched a new website where she rehashes all of her old complaints about imported pangasius and promotes letters written by folks like the Honorable Rep. Marion Berry.

Wait Berry Berry.

Is he the guy who the New York Times was talking about in an opinion piece, all the way back in 2003, who joined in a stupendously tactless disinformation campaign against the Vietnamese, suggesting that their fish were not good enough for American diners because they came from a place contaminated by so much Agent Orange sprayed over the countryside by American forces during the Vietnam War.

Why, yes he is.

Lets get one thing straight the U.S. catfish industry wants to snuff out its pangasius competition by switching the fish’s inspection from FDA to USDA, a move that won’t make the food any safer but will present bureaucratic and regulatory roadblocks that will keep it out of this country. It’s a move that benefits bottom feeding lobbyists but hurts American farmers in places like Iowa and Illinois.

Enough with the faux food safety scare.