Opening up a can of tuna yesterday I was wondering ‘where has the rest of this tuna ended up? How long will it be before the whole fish is eaten, and how much will be wasted’?
The world suddenly seems so much smaller.
I’d bet you’re the only one that ate that tuna in the shower though
What can I say, it just feels more authentic that way
Wasn’t there a post on here not long ago with someone thinking the same thing about getting half an avocado? Like “woah someone else is eating the same avocado as me”. This also applies to say, cows. Pretty rare to eat one single cow yourself.
Oh I missed that! But wait, where you can buy half an avocado? Why would you only want half?
I think they meant being served half an avocado on a restaurant dish. Your plate comes out, there’s half a sliced avocado on top of your enchiladas… then you scan the room, thinking “who here has the other half of my avocado?”
When I was in fisheries the tuna boats would bring the haul of frozen tuna into port where they’d be weighed, counted, and transferred to a cannery also in port.
A lot were fileted and cut right there too, so not all was straight to can.
Now a lot of the cans stayed fairly together by shipment. So I imagine where a lot code was split across separate pallets or shipments might a single fish be sent to different locations in can form. So I would wager the ‘rest’ of the tuna is at least on the shelf next to… itself.
As far as waste though? Some companies are super diligent about their waste streams. Fish meals and such have resale value. Others leave large amounts of parts and material in their shop floors and just power wash it back into the marine waters even while being fined and penalized by regulators. So mileage varies there.
