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Could you taste the difference between cod and other whitefish, such as haddock or hake, if you didn't know what you were eating? The answer may have implications for supporting local fisheries and food sustainability in New England, says UMass Amherst environmental conservation graduate student Amanda Davis.
A research fellow at the UMass Amherst-based Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center, Davis is exploring the reactions of UMass Amherst students and staff, born between 1980 and 2000, in a scientific sensory evaluation of five different whitefish sourced straight from the Boston Fish Pier: cod, dogfish, haddock, hake and pollock.
The study, funded by a seed grant from the UMass Amherst Institute for Social Science Research, is designed to explore "name bias" in seafood choices. Davis will present results in January at the winter science meeting of the American Fisheries Society's Southern New England Chapter in Cambridge.
The whitefish study grew out of Davis's interest in promoting local, sustainable seafood in New England. She is director of Our Wicked Fish, a newly founded, Deerfield-based nonprofit that strives to revitalize New England's fishing industry by educating consumers and connecting them with local seafood options.
It might come as a surprise, Davis notes, that despite the storied tradition of New England's fisheries—Cape Cod was named after the once-abundant fish, after all—most seafood offered in the Northeast U.S. today is imported. "We want to change that," Davis says. "How can we get consumers interested in eating whitefish other than cod? Hake, pollock and haddock taste as good and are not as expensive."
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday October 21 2019, @11:23PM (3 children)
Remember those 3 FtMs I knew from high school? I seriously cannot tell them from cisgender men-born-men. If that's "organic dress-up" they're doing an incredible job of it. The one I got to work with post-transition even began smelling more like a man, sharper BO and everything. The more biology I learn the more it seems there's less biological difference between the sexes than we're taught.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday October 22 2019, @04:52AM (2 children)
The fish's bodies actually change sex. Everything in their body goes from being in male gear to being in female gear. Surgery does not change sex, it's only cosmetic. Taking the wrong hormones likewise may confuse the shit out of the body but it doesn't change what sex the body is.
Now I don't actually give a damn if someone wants to play surgical, chemical, or ordinary dress-up. Just don't tell me I have to pretend they're what their costume appears to be.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Pino P on Tuesday October 22 2019, @04:47PM (1 child)
Many human boys with 5-alpha-reductase deficiency [wikipedia.org] get misassigned as girls at birth and raised as girls because they don't start developing outward masculine traits until puberty. Is this transition? Or is it more like what happens in some fish species?
5ARD is an intersex condition that clearly affects outward appearance. But other intersex conditions [wikipedia.org] aren't so easy to see, such as a man whose brain behaves in the way that the surrounding culture expects a woman's brain to behave. If not transition/dress-up, then what treatment would you recommend for someone with the "clinically significant distress or impairment" associated with gender dysphoria [wikipedia.org]? Or would it be easier to change the culture not to assign certain behaviors to one gender or the other?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday October 22 2019, @10:02PM
First answer: It's the doctors fucking up. It has nothing to do with the child's sex.
Second answer: Do whatever they like, just don't tell me I have to pretend pink is blue to spare their feelings.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.