11 September 2007

W h y f i s h ¿ O n a h o o k ?


Because that's how folks used to catch it.

Themselves.

Gradma used to say that it was good for you -- so fresh -- it was clean, natural and good darn tasting.

It still is.

There are few products in today’s supermarket shelves that can deliver the natural goodness of fish – fish caught in the wild, like it always was. I’ve nothing against fish raised on farms; sounds like a decent idea to raise food made by people. Cows are also raised on farms so it may be fair enough.

But I digress.

Had we had our natural way we’d catch that fish or hunt that cow (though we might call it something bigger, with some other exciting name) but that isn’t practical anymore. Hard to do that mid-week in rush-hour traffic!

So someone’s got to do it for us.

Who do we trust? How do we know?

'Cause fish normally don't fly above our heads, well, not most of the time anyway.


* Print - Above the City, 2004

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