About Seafood

This week the Environmental Working Group (EWG) and its puppet the Mercury Policy Project (MPP) are out with a misguided release that, not surprisingly, flies in the face of the latest science on seaf...

Paul Geenberg tells his readers he’s been trying to come up with a “seafood three-liner that would be as concise, elegant and free from exceptions” as the one writer Michael Pollan came up with ...

Actor Adrian Grenier is under the impression that he shouldn’t eat shrimp based on something someone once told him about bycatch. Quick update for Adrian and other Entourage fans. The vast majori...

June 3, 2015 Sue Lohman Managing Editor MSN Health & Fitness VIA Email Dear Ms. Lohman, As part of MSN.com’s current front page news feed you feature an article titled 10 Fish ...

Dear Mr. McGrory: I write to take issue with a piece by Lisa Zwirn on seafood sustainability [How ocean-friendly is your canned tuna?; 5/26] which contains a number of serious journalism flaws and ...

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Consumer Reports is back at it with another error-ridden, alarmist take on tuna and health. We had some fun last time pointing out the absurdity of much of the magazine's nutrition-based recommendatio...

Steaming Steaming is a gentle, fat-free cooking method that keeps the natural moisture in foods. This method uses the steam from a simmering liquid (usually water, seafood broth, or wine) to tran...

April 23, 2015 Washington, D.C. The last time Consumer Reports (CR) cooked up a seafood scare story it was about canned tuna. That time the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) blasted the report as on...

Today we read that a group of doctors is petitioning Columbia University to remove Dr. Mehmet Oz from his faculty position because of his "egregious lack of integrity." "Dr. Oz has repeatedly sho...

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April 6, 2015 Washington, DC Reporters, producers and editors working on stories about todays release from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) are warned not to misreport on the findings ...