Posted by banga on March 27, 2005, at 9:08:30
In reply to Re: A new twist--eating salmon often... » banga, posted by Larry Hoover on March 27, 2005, at 8:37:10
> That is only true for European farmed salmon, and only some farmed salmon, at that. All American salmon (both South and North American) is fed a ration which is primarily made from fish meal. (There are environmental arguments against that, as huge ships with vacuums are sucking up herring- and sardine-like fishes at massive rates, and just grinding them up.) In any case, that grain-fed fish armument is old news. I don't think it happens very often any more, and only applies to certain areas of the North Sea, anyway.
I agree, this is a generalization....but when buying my salmon, I doubt they are able to tell me what farm it is from and what was fed...on the other hand, fish from the wild can have heavy metals. The trick for me is to get fish from the cleaner waters.....
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