Dude. This is Red Snapper. This is tilefish. This is tilapia. Now - you could cut that up, deep fry it, serve it up in a tortilla and call it a taco and some people might be fooled. But most people eat red snapper like this: There's a lot of "fake" food in the USA. And yes indeed: origin stamps are the best way to get "genuine" food. But parmesan from California isn't "fake" any more than California champagne is "fake" - yeah, it's technically sparkling wine but the grapes don't care. The "fake" salmon described in the article is farmed salmon - still salmon, produced under not-great conditions, but still salmon. If you can't tell the difference between salmon and trout you deserve what you get. Larry Olmstead is a hell of a writer, but Larry Olmstead boiled down and misquoted by the Post is pretty alarmist.Red snapper, by the way, is almost always fake — it’s probably tilefish or tilapia. (Tilapia also doubles for catfish.)
