Is farm raised salmon as healthy for you as wild caught?!
Is farm raised salmon as healthy for you as wild caught?
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Ok time to get on my soapbox. Most farmed raised salmon is not only bad for you but the ocean as well. The salmon is held in pens without filtration systems. They end up swimming in a cesspool. When one gets sick, they all get antibiotics. The food they are fed is made up of top of the food chain fish. it takes 3 times the amount of food to fed a farmed salmon then a wild salmon. Plus because it's top of the food chain, the mercury and lead levels are higher and more concentrated. On top of that, because they are not eating krill (which is where they get their pink color) they have to be fed dies to make them pink. Mmmmm, fish that lived in a cesspool and been fed antibiotics, dies and are high in mercury and lead - I want that on my dinner plate. Oh, then the pen water is released into the oceans without cleaning it. It's the equivalent of releasing the untreated sewer of a city into the ocean. Another thing, there isn't any wild Atlantic salmon in the world - it's all farmed. When one of these salmon manages to escape from the pens, it contaminates the wild salmon and is killing them.
Please buy only salmon that says Alaskian Salmon on it. It comes from a sustainable fishery. It's good for you and good for our oceans
For more details - please visit www.seafoodwatch.org
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I'm a Monterey Bay Aquarium Volunteer
how can you raise slamon on a farm or w.e???
The idoit above does not know much do they? Anyhow they both are equally good for you except I think wild salmon taste better.
no. it has added colors and preservatives. they add color because these fish basically float around all day and get fed. wild salmon has much more color due to its muscles being used all the time. fish that work harder in nature work harder in your body to give you energy and in vitamins and fat.
yes!!!! people use more farm raised seafood more, because either they are allergic to the other types and the flavor and tenderness is much better.. that's what i have been told... or they are scared they face will end up looking like they were in a boxing ring...
No. The diet of farm raised fish is generally corn meal and chemicals. Sound good?
I'd rather eat a salmon that fed itself on what it naturally eats.
But salmon is becoming endangered for many reasons including overfishing, so farm raised doesn't look too bad if the option is no salmon at all. I admit that I support farm raised fish but wish they would feed them better. They would taste better in the long run as well.
No, farm raised has a much higher fat content than the wild salmon.
The farm raised have more mercury and pesticides.
Actually, farm raised salmon has higher mercury levels than wild salmon. You should eat it no more than once a month. If you are worried about mercury toxicicty you can take selenium and it will take excess mercury out of the body.
I don't get Field Hockey
she may have never heard of land locked salmon = trout
BUT
why would their be any thing less
a farm raised is fed daily 2 -3 times
YOU guess!!
I have no idea!!!
Farm raised have a pailer colour and less flavour than wild. Just as healthy and still a good source for the Omega-3's etc
Of course, all the Mercury stuff others are talking about, is probably because of farming practice in the country they live in.
No. The wild salmon produces more Omega-3 to begin with. The farmed salmon given antibiotics and hormones in the feed. Not to mention that they have 800,000 salmon in an enclosed area...all of them pooping and breathing that poop filled water.
Sorry for the mental image.
Wild caught is much better.