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Article: TILAPIA IS A FARMED FISH OF BIBLICAL FAME.(Living)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
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- July 16, 2003
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Byline: Joyce Rosencrans Post food editor
The first time I tasted tilapia was at EPCOT. It was a Disney kind of day nearly 20 years ago, and the lunch catered to food editors gathered in an EPCOT conference room featured a farmed tilapia saute. The mild, white fish -- known to be harvested in biblical times -- was billed as a future food.
Why? Because a one-pound tilapia can grow in only one gallon of recyclable water. Also, tilapia feed on small amounts of soybean meal, unlike farm-grown salmon that require six pounds of dried salmon fish food.
In fact, this efficiency of protein growth once earned 30 baby tilapia fish a ride in space. On ...