TAKE A LOOK AT SALMON:
Because farmed salmon are fed a mix of soy (an obesogen) and fish meal, their flesh is naturally white, not pink.
Compared to the wild - caught varieties, these farmed fish tended to have higher levels of omega - 3s but only
because the farmed salmon have more fat overall, including higher levels of omega - 6 polyunsaturated fats and saturated fats.
Because farmed salmon are in open net pens and share water with nearby wild salmon, the parasites can transmit to young wild salmon who wouldn't normally encounter sea lice until later in life.
Not exact matches
organic responsibly
farmed salmon or organic baby kale
because it hadn't considered that maybe customers would prefer to pay less.
Still, it's not as if Whole Foods was charging more for organic responsibly
farmed salmon or organic baby kale
because it hadn't considered that maybe customers would prefer to pay less.
Because of this, the company says its
salmon have a delicate and clean flavor compared with
salmon that have been
farm - raised conventionally.
I need to find a better source of tuna
because here in the midwest we usually on have
farmed salmon.
The researchers looked specifically at the average fishing revenue in 106 Alaskan communities for 10 years before and after 1989, a year when the North Pacific Ocean experienced a significant shift in productivity and abrupt changes in the composition of marine food webs, while at the same time the global price for
salmon dropped
because of competition from
farm - raised fish.
This is important information
because millions of
farmed salmon escape into the wild — posing threats to wild gene pools.
And
because the new product can be labeled as
farmed Atlantic
salmon without mention of the genetic modification, consumers may not know they're eating it unless retailers explicitly refuse to buy it, he says.
How to buy: Avoid
farmed salmon,
because it's hard to know what type of environment it came from.
Fish (except for
farm - raised fish, any commercially available fish is fine, but [i] fatty deep sea fish such as
salmon, herring, and mackerel are the best, and [ii]
because of mercury contamination do not have large fish such as tuna or shark more than once a week).
Wild
salmon is a healthier option than
farm raised
salmon and has higher levels of omega - 3's
because the wild
salmon eat what they're supposed to eat naturally.
One other thing nobody is talking about is the fact that fish are going extinct from the oceans, and factory fish
farms are creating huge amounts of coastal pollution and fish are still going extinct in the oceans
because they need to catch SO many smaller fish to feed the
salmon.
Our food supply has gotten so screwed up that we're even feeding our
salmon and other
farmed fish corn and soy... again
because of the economics involved.
Otherwise, if you are shopping in a supermarket and you see Alaskan
Salmon you'll know it is wild
because there are no
salmon farms in Alaska.
As I mentioned in my recipe for
salmon chowder, I always prefer to buy wild fish
because of the many problems associated with
farmed fish.
And choose wild
salmon,
because it is generally healthier, cleaner and less ecologically harmful than
farmed salmon.
A good thing about sea -
farmed salmon is: it is often fresher than its wild cousin
because the time between harvest to the production of the oil is much shorter.
PBDEs are also high in
farmed fish — the source of most
salmon used in cat food — probably
because there are high levels found in in fish food.