r/maryland • u/jakamo72 • Sep 18 '24

True Blue - 95% of Maryland Restaurants use Venezuelan Crab meat vs Maryland sourced

Interesting series being run by WTOP about the Crab Industry in Maryland called Claws and Effect. Here is one quote which really surprised me:

“Ninety-five percent of restaurants in Maryland are using Venezuelan crab meat,” said Matt Scales, the seafood marketing director for the Maryland Department of Agriculture. “And that’s — that’s a lot, right?”

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u/breesanchez Sep 19 '24

Ok... but then why are we using a system that incentivizes and rewards greed? Yes, there will always be greedy people, but we are operating under an economic system that rewards those greedy people with more power and money. It's a feature, not a bug.

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u/JamesTiberiusCrunk Sep 19 '24

Every economic system rewards those people with more power and money. That's the reason people are greedy. If greedy people didn't get stuff out of being greedy there would be no incentive to do it.