Oceana reports the global fraud rate (55 countries tested) in fish labeling is 20%, compared to 28% in the U.S. - but this international figure is skewed by the EU, where strong enforcement has reduced the rate from 23% to 8%
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."