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Wait, I can eat oysters?!

You sure can. Here are 5 reasons we still slurp bivalves

Liza Schoenfein
Aug 20, 2023
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They used to say to eat oysters only in months with an R (September through April), but that rule’s obsolete—and that's not even the best news. Order a dozen, and you'll almost certainly be slurping pretty sustainably. Both wins owe to the fact that 95% of oysters on the U.S. market are farmed, and those bivalves have the smallest carbon footprint of an…

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