Is
farmed salmon even worth buying?
Not exact matches
«Back in the states, I try to avoid
farm - raised shrimp and
salmon,
even though wild
salmon is astronomically more expensive.
Today,
even the krill are under threat from countries such as Norway, which want to use them as feed for their domestic
salmon farms.
«
Even though parasite treatments on
farms were effective, we saw that treatments failed to protect wild
salmon, and this happened at a time of unexpected warming in ocean water in these regions,» says Martin Krkosek, assistant professor in U of T's Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology.
Beware of
farmed varieties, however, which may be labeled as «Atlantic
salmon» or
even «organic.»
Even though
farmed salmon contains Omega - 6, the O6: O3 ratio is still excellent (at 1:3 - 4), it's just less excellent than that in wild
salmon, which is at 1:10 (9).
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.
These chemicals have such a long half - life that people «consuming regular (
even [just] monthly) meals of [
farmed]
salmon... might [not only] consume high concentrations of [pollutants], but some of these [chemicals] might take between 50 and 75 years to clear from the body.»
Farmed salmon aka Pharm
salmon is never a good option, not
even if wild is not available.