Trace Amounts of Melamine May Be in Fish, Too

And now we learn that farmed fish may have been fed melamine-contaminated meal. This is quickly shaping up to be the worst food scandal since the the "mad cow disease" debacle of 1996.

We keep learning a lot more than we wanted to know about how domesticated animals are fed.

Ten years ago, the general public discovered that cows were fed cows' brains as a matter of course. Now we're learning all about fillers like wheat gluten--or possibly wheat flour, according to the latest reports--that are added to animal feed.

At least in the melamine scandal, so far, no people seem to have died.

I still plan to cook some farmed salmon this weekend for dinner.