Catfish from Vietnam

[ZenGum]

I have a rule against buying anything that was caught in the Mediterranean. The med is an evaporating sea - more evaporates from it than flows in from rivers, so there is a steady inflow through the Straights of Gibraltar. So all the contaminants from the Rhone, Danube, Volga and Nile (i.e. most of the crap from former soviet states), as well as things added directly to the sea (lead from boat paint, radioactive waste dumped illegally by the mafia etc etc) has no where to go and gradually concentrates.

The open ocean is better, but frankly, the whole damn planet is polluted and the best we can do is choose the less polluted food sources. Or be like Griff, but I hate goats.