<p>Honestly, I have never had the time to follow up on each of retailers and suppliers. I once tried that with Fred Meyer, and not even their corporate office seemed to know where there shrimp were coming from. (Note, that was five years ago.)</p>
<p>I can tell you (and I am not professional in fish-farming) that “farm-raised” and “chemical-free” is an oxymoron in the Third World. It is almost impossible to keep the larvae alive without massive use of chemicals and antibiotics. In the part of India where I work, virtually all of the prawn farms have gone belly-up, leaving behind thousands of acres of gray chemicalized wasteland (it looks like the surface of the moon) in the midst of emerald green rice paddies. No one has ever been able to restore the land to its former uses (lots of people will tell you that they can, but no one has ever done it.) And there are coastlines in three score countries with similar situations.</p>
<p>In my family, in order to spare them pointless hypochondriac terror and likely psychosomatic stomach upset. If your family isn’t troubled with this neurosis, no big deal.</p>
<p>I’m sorry…what was said was not a lie of omission. For it to be a lie someone has to ask if the shrimp were cooked. If the answer was then, I would never do that! That is a lie. A lieof omission is I only buy cooked shrimp…which would be true…in most cases, or all but one…the shrimp were cooked.</p>
<p>What the OP said, or didn’t qualifies for none of the above. She did the “sin”, it is the sin of …nothing. You get a pass…no one asked…therefore there was no lie.</p>
<p>I did tell them. They thought it was funny. I told them that it was a bad idea to eat raw seafood, but that the chances of any problems were small. I asked them to tell me if there is anything unusual in the next couple of days. One said that they tasted fine, but the texture was funny. The other said that they didn’t taste right, and that’s why he didn’t eat many. I asked them why they didn’t say anything!</p>
<p>Well, good that the one who thought they “didn’t taste right” didn’t eat many. It’s always a good idea to stop eating anything that has an “odd” texture or taste, especially shellfish. You may wish to ask your boys & other family members know if they encounter anything like this in the future. They may have been trying to spare your feelings.</p>
<p>I’m allergic to shrimp & have been pretty much all my life, so we NEVER serve it in this household. My S and H are also somewhat more mildly allergic, so they avoid shrimp as well. D doesn’t eat much of it either, because she feels she may well also develop sensitivity.</p>
<p>It’s hard to know where food comes from, as Mini says. They may tell you where it was PROCESSED, if you’re lucky.</p>
<p>^^^
I cooked the first Thanksgiving turkey I ever made with the plastic package of giblets in the neck. I was in my early 20’s and it was absolutely a rite of passage (never did it again)!</p>
<p>Concerning the purchase of farmed shrimp; I used to work with someone who spent much of her life in Thailand and she said that she would never, ever buy any seafood from Asia and most definitely not farmed. She said that if Americans ever saw how these farms operated, they would be sick. As a result, I only buy American wild caught shrimp, individually quick frozen (IQF) and watch for sales since it tends to be pricey. You should never buy the already thawed kind either since you really don’t get the freshest product that way.</p>
<p>I really do miss those Costco shrimp prices.</p>
<p>OP, maybe they didn’t say anything because of how you came across in your first post-in your own words-“panicking”? If that’s your usual way of dealing with harmless mistakes, they probably didn’t want to get you upset. Now that the moment has passed and everyone is ok, this might be a good time for both you and your kids to learn from it-they will feel ok to tell you about a possible problem, and you can work on not panicking over their response to a minor thing. So in the end, maybe it’s a good thing this happened!</p>
<p>Thought of the OP when a contestant on American Idol said she likes to eat frozen shrimp right out of the freezer. She said it’s like having a shrimp popsicle - a shrimpsicle. She did say that they were already cooked and she liked how they defrosted in her mouth. Eeuw.</p>