stay away from Farm raised salmon, esp. Norwegian

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What am I missing - last I checked most farm raised salmon around here (I assume Op is posting from DC area) is Atlantic farm raised. I dont think I've ever really seen Norwegian farm raised here - why would we with the Atlantic a pebble's throw away?

FWIW, dh buys one if those 2lbers of farm raised salmon each week from Costco and eats it throughout the week.

The tradeoff it has helped tremendously with his diet and RA.

Plus, I find there are fear mongering stories with just about every food out there.

Most farm-raised Atlantic salmon is from Norway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What am I missing - last I checked most farm raised salmon around here (I assume Op is posting from DC area) is Atlantic farm raised. I dont think I've ever really seen Norwegian farm raised here - why would we with the Atlantic a pebble's throw away?

FWIW, dh buys one if those 2lbers of farm raised salmon each week from Costco and eats it throughout the week.

The tradeoff it has helped tremendously with his diet and RA.

Plus, I find there are fear mongering stories with just about every food out there.

Most farm-raised Atlantic salmon is from Norway.

I thought OP said Norwegian salmon was from the Baltic sea .

[Anonymous]

Lol, people are really attached to their salmon!

[Anonymous]

https://www.seafoodwatch.org/recommendations/search?query=%3Afree%3Bsalmon%7Cspecies%3Agroup%3BSalmon

FWIW, one region in Norway has good ratings while others have poor ratings.

The Seafood Watch is a good way to know which seafood is best for the environment and safest, but it does require effort to check where everything comes from.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:But I buy my farmed salmon from whole foods... surely that's okay?

Apparently Whole Foods is ok
https://feedthemwisely.com/guide-to-buying-healthy-farmed-salmon

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I really prefer the taste of farmed fish unfortunately

Me to. I find the wuld salmon disgusting. It's dry and tastes like cardboard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is good advice but it is hardly new.

NP. Not new, but you'd be surprised how many people don't know it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I appreciate the thought OP but I eat salmon at least 2-3 times a week and I don't really distinguish between farm-raised or wild-caught. I buy what looks good that day when I'm at the store. I also eat canned tuna practically every day for lunch. I'll keep you posted about how it all works out...fingers crossed for a good outcome! I'm not being snarky, just realistic.

PP. I was like you with the salmon, but now rarely eat it after learning about this issue. Changing your habits is definitely possible.

[Anonymous]

So if I’m not into watching videos what’s my takeaway. All fish is toxic somehow so I should probably avoid it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What am I missing - last I checked most farm raised salmon around here (I assume Op is posting from DC area) is Atlantic farm raised. I dont think I've ever really seen Norwegian farm raised here - why would we with the Atlantic a pebble's throw away?

FWIW, dh buys one if those 2lbers of farm raised salmon each week from Costco and eats it throughout the week.

The tradeoff it has helped tremendously with his diet and RA.

Plus, I find there are fear mongering stories with just about every food out there.

Most farm-raised Atlantic salmon is from Norway.

I thought OP said Norwegian salmon was from the Baltic sea .

Sad how geographically-challenged people are.

Norway does not border the Baltic. It is on the Atlantic. It is the source of almost all our Atlantic farmed salmon. They feed it seafood harvested in the Baltic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So if I’m not into watching videos what’s my takeaway. All fish is toxic somehow so I should probably avoid it?

Everything else is toxic too.

[Anonymous]

If everyone ate wild caught there would be such low supply and essentially unaffordable to a large swath of the population. What’s better? (Not being snarky, serious question.)

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I appreciate the thought OP but I eat salmon at least 2-3 times a week and I don't really distinguish between farm-raised or wild-caught. I buy what looks good that day when I'm at the store. I also eat canned tuna practically every day for lunch. I'll keep you posted about how it all works out...fingers crossed for a good outcome! I'm not being snarky, just realistic.

OP here. I do not think you are being realistic at all. This is not about measurable outcome in any given moment. This is about the sheer concentrations in this specific food being astronomically worse than wild fish, smaller wild caught fish AND beef or chicken.

Im not sharing a "thought" for you to appreciate. This is merely to inform you that wild caught and farm raised salmon are radically different in ways that are readily measured, and have been. If you want to eat a very toxic food because thats what is realistic for you, I get it. But just understand that you are talking about realistic in a general sense- its about your choice.

No worries. So far so good!

Don't you have better things to do?

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Op, you really need to chill out. There are lot of toxic things that are slowly killing us. But not quick enough I guess. People are living well past 90 now with pretty terrible quality life.

I'll eat all the salmon I want (though i do eat wild by preferance) and hope to have lights out before I'm deaf, blind, and crapping my pants in a nursing home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If everyone ate wild caught there would be such low supply and essentially unaffordable to a large swath of the population. What’s better? (Not being snarky, serious question.)

This is very true. The Monterrey Bay Aquarium has a list of fish that you should eat that are farm raised because of that fishes dwinding population. But they don't tell you which fishes have high levels of toxins from being farmed.

To the vegan PP, you do understand that there are many people who cannot grow their own food, not just because they don't have the land but because it actually takes a lot of time and money to do this. We have a large vegetable garden, and it's a time and money sucker, but we ejoy it.

And most vegans don't get enough protein. We have friends who were vegetarians, and they realized that their child was not getting enough protein so they started to eat....fish.