Something’s Fishy Here: WSJ Sentiment Tracker by NetBase

In my book, sushi is a food group – I can’t survive without a regular salmon or spicy tuna fix. And I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one who sees a great piece of fish as a food staple – which makes the recent revelation of “fish fraud” by the FDA last week particularly upsetting. In a study, they found widespread mislabeling of seafood in restaurants and grocery stores (this does not happen with sushi, since it is basically color-coded, i.e. salmon is orange, tuna is dark red or pink…you get the idea). The February 23^rd installment of the Wall Street Journal Sentiment Tracker checked out the social media response to this news and found that 89% of the conversations from Facebook and Twitter users expressed how upset they were, while 6% were unfazed, and 5% cracked jokes. Check out some of the distressed tweets and posts from social media users:

Great. Can’t trust anyone these days! Nofishforyou!

Forget #horsemeat. The real food scandal is mislabeled seafood.

Can’t trust sushi in Southern California. 52% of fish is mislabeled.

Will you stop your own fish-food habits? Let me know in the comments!