Have you eaten locally pond raised shrimp?

Yes, in Kauai, Hawaii.

No, I think I’d pass.

I’m not sure. I love to eat shrimp. I did not know there were shrimp farms. I don’t know a restaurant’s source for shrimp. I know sometimes I have very tasty shrimp, and sometimes I wonder if it was dead before they caught it.

You should probably have local pond raised shrimp, too, @Here2_4. We’re practically neighbors. It’s not cheap, with restaurant sized at $16 per pound (and the waste of the heads). Still, I’m curious to see and try it, but I’ve been warned that it may be expensive and have a muddy taste.

I prefer my seafood wild caught. It might be more expensive, but I think it tastes better.

I think that unless advertised otherwise, most restaurants would go for the less expensive locally farmed shrimp, as well as other locally farmed seafood.

This is an exposé on the practice of commercial shrimp farming. It is much like the “factory farming” of much of our meat sources, and puts toxins in our food chain that can potentially effect such things as immune systems, liver function, kidney function…the list goes on.

I’m talking about shrimp raised in a pond in the Midwestern US, @Yetanotheruser. You drive up, tell them how much you want. They then catch and weigh shrimp and put it on ice. It’s two guys and a pond in a town if less than 1,000.