# Three day old fish **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 20, 1999, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-day-old-fish/5437 "1999-12-20T13:36:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![galen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecc23a/32.png) [@galen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 1999, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-day-old-fish/5437/1 "1999-12-20T13:36:00Z")
Why does seafood go bad so much faster than beef or poultry? ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 1999, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-day-old-fish/5437/2 "1999-12-20T14:41:00Z")
## WAGs:[list=1][li]Fish are less evolved. :)[/li][li]Beef & chicken eat antibiotic-laden food. The antibiotics keep working after the animal has died.[/li][li]When fish are harvested, they’re all dumped in a big holding bin, then taken to port for processing. There’s thousands of dead fishies mingling for quite a while, whereas beef carcasses are hung up individually after slaughter.[/li][li]Latent bacteria living in the sea (and also in fish) are faster-acting than their dry-land counterparts.[/list=1][/li] I looked in the mirror today/My eyes just didn’t seem so bright I’ve lost a few more hairs/I think I’m going bald - Rush ---
**Author:** ![pluto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f08c70/32.png) [@pluto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pluto)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 1999, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-day-old-fish/5437/3 "1999-12-20T20:53:00Z")
## Because seafood is pretty bad to begin with, IMHO. “If ignorance were corn flakes, you’d be General Mills.” Cecil Adams _The Straight Dope_