Yes, they're feeding you a fish that can cause "prolonged, uncontrollable, oily anal leakage."

I sense that some people in the tuna industry have a really wicked sense of humor.

I saw Oily Anal Leakage open for Joan Jett once...

I have no reason to believe that tuna are not endangered, but I would like to see documentation from somewhere other than Greenpeace before I put credence in this. Greenpeace has a bad habit of dispensing half-truths, quarter-truths, and outright lies.

Actually alittlesense tuna being endangered is true.

The Japanese catch more than they eat and store the rest. One day they expect tuna to be so endangered they'll have some of the only reserves, a moopoly if you will.

East Asians love killing shit for no other purpose than to piss off international law. Nobody really eats whale for the amount they catch but fuck you they will still so it.

What I have seen the Chinese do in S America- well they like to kill just for prestige.

So, a can labelled "Tuna" doesn't actually have to contain tuna? They can do that?

Umm - do you really think you're getting scallops when the label says that?

Go look up "scallop" and see what the critter looks like.

http://www.iucn.org/knowledge/news/?7820

A possibly-less-biased assessment of tuna status.

I've always understood "white tuna" to be another name for escolar (not an intentional deception). But aside from the "white tuna" label, do people actually think it comes from the same animal as true tunas?
After all, everyone knows "crab stick" is just crab-flavored pollock.

Actually this renaming fish is nothing new.

Chilean Sea Bass = Patagonian toothfish (not a bass)

Varieties of tuna at one time were referred to as "horse mackerel" but doesn't sound too appetizing on a menu.

P.S. Escolar is tasty in small doses, especially grilled.

The sushi snobs seem to think escolar is actually better than tuna, and I suspect that the price reflects that.

I doubt if too much of it ends up canned.

Escolar is delicious! If you have a sensitive stomach, then the high oil content of the fish will most likely affect you negatively. Escolar is like butter melting in your mouth!

I only buy albacore - at least that's what the can says. But damn if they want to give me escolar for the price of tuna, I'm ok with that!

"prolonged, uncontrollable, oily anal leakage."

Didn't they have fake-fat potato chips on the market several years ago that did the same thing?

We farm our grain, we farm our meat - we should farm our fish.

It is time and past time to prohibit commercial fishing entirely. Subsistence fishing (small boats, no machinery) can remain, but no more factory ships hauling up entire schools of fish.