Tilapia is a popular, farmed fish that is generally imported to the U.S. Its also apparently on the hit list of a University of Georgia microbiologist named Michael Doyle. You might have read recently that Doyle claimed “(Feces) is the primary nutrient for growing the tilapia (in China).”

Really? A published professor, who holds numerous food safety patents believes the primary food farmed tilapia is fed is chicken poop?

There no evidence that feces is the primary nutrient fed to tilapia in any commercial aquaculture operation anywhere on the planet. This comically out of touch statement must have either been in jest or is the exposition of a surprising ignorance.

The Global Aquaculture Alliance bristled at the embarrassing hyperbole when it was brought to its attention noting that, there is no merit or support for this claim. A typical tilapia feed, regardless of where it is produced, is mainly carbohydrate based and the main ingredients are soybean meal, broken rice or corn grains and wheat middlings, with a small quantity of fish meal added.

I wonder if there are any decorated microbiologists willing to go on the record about whether the combination of Pop Rocks and soda actually killed Mikey from those Life Cereal ads.