Massachusetts would levy fines on supermarkets and restaurants that mislabel seafood and become the first state in the nation to ban the sale of escolar, an oily species known as the “ex-lax” fish that is often served as sushi, under legislation expected to be filed Friday.
The bill, proposed by the Legislature’s Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure, comes more than a year after a Boston Globe report revealed widespread seafood substitution in restaurants across Massachusetts. In many instances, less desirable and cheaper species took the place of fresh local fish. A follow-up investigation published last fall found most of those restaurants were still mislabeling seafood.
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So, if I order one species of fish and am served another can I sue?
Will distributors and whoelsalers be subject to fines also?
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What is truly amazing to me, is that people's lively and an entire industry within Massachusetts is being threatened, and all the Boston Globe can do is write an article about mislabeled fish being served to wealthy individuals in expensive seafood restaurants. Some genius will throw out a line like "If you don't like the Globe don't read it".. But you know the Globe is like a sports franchise, and a city doesn't get 100 of them only a couple, and if your local sports team is going through a really period you need to voice your opinion so that ownership will get new Players and management and turn the team around. The Globe needs to report that State Street Corporation is not really "cutting" 260 jobs from Boston, they are sending these jobs to INDIA in a Joint Venture with a firm called Syntel Corporation. The future of our children is being wiped out and all the Boston Globe can due is produce an article like this, as if it is something to be proud of. Low-risk Low-return "flower pot" stories like this fish story is not going to sabe the livelyhood of some family who has lost its wage earner in Quincy or Boston becasue of an unethical program like State Street Corporation's Joint Venture sending Massachusetts Jobs to INDIA.