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Why aren't we eating Asian Carp?

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To expand a bit on Garrick and John's answers: 1.) Carp are bottom-feeding fish, which makes them much more likely to pick up toxins, chemicals, and generally unpleasant flavors from the wild. read more

With exceptions, Americans just don't like eating carp, any kind of carp. They consider it a 'trash fish', not a food fish. The exceptions include various Asian ethnic groups as well as those from Eastern Europe. read more

Carp in the wild, eating what they find, tend to have a 'muddy' flavor, not something considered desirable. While not all carp are 'muddy', the ones most Americans come across, unless farmed, are. Other fish with bottom-feeding habits are equally deemed undesirable. read more

The family owned business, since 1955, gets most of it from local fishermen on the Illinois and Mississippi rivers. But, while China considers Asian carp a food staple, many Americans find them hard to swallow. “I think the reason people should look at eating Asian carp; first of all, its wild caught. It has no antibiotics in it. It’s natural. read more

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