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SALMON WARNING
San Jose Business Journal ^
| Fri, Jan. 09, 2004
| Jessica Portner
Posted on 01/11/2004 10:34:39 AM PST by nickcarraway
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:49:21 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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Diners who are partial to salmon should avoid most farm-raised varieties, which often contain dangerous levels of cancer-causing contaminants, according to a major new international study that compared commercially bred salmon with their wild counterparts.
The orange-fleshed fish can harbor so many toxic substances that salmon eaters in the San Francisco area should ration their intake to one eight-ounce farmed salmon steak every two months, the researchers found. The two-year study, published today in the journal Science, found that farm-raised salmon has about 10 times the level of environmental toxins of wild fish -- largely because the farmed variety are fed other fish harvested from waters close to sources of industrial runoff.
(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Canada; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Germany; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Alaska; US: California; US: Oregon; US: Washington; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: alaska; california; costalenvironment; europe; fisheries; food; health; oregon; petatricks; salmon; um; washington
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I believe this article lays it on thick and has some errors. But wild salmon is definitely superior to fram-raised, not least in flavor.
To: nickcarraway
Gotta watch that fram-raised variety. Loved this headline, by the way!
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posted on
01/11/2004 10:35:44 AM PST
by
jwalburg
(You're not moderate just because you know leftier leftists than yourself)
To: nickcarraway
Is there anything the food police says I can eat?
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posted on
01/11/2004 10:36:30 AM PST
by
Catspaw
To: nickcarraway
Wild salmon caught off the California coast was not included in the study.Too bad. We have some great salmon coming from places like, Bodega Bay, Morro Bay, Half Moon Bay, Santa cruz, etc. Right about now we it's coming from Alaska, though.
I am about to head to the farmer's market to get some wild salmon...
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posted on
01/11/2004 10:36:31 AM PST
by
nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
To: nickcarraway
University of Michigan and PETA team up again.
This study is guaranteed to be full of holes.
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posted on
01/11/2004 10:41:40 AM PST
by
TaxRelief
("Links" build the chain of knowledge)
To: nickcarraway
Hypocrisy is wanting to "Save the Salmon"... then eating them.
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posted on
01/11/2004 10:42:34 AM PST
by
Eala
(Sacrificing tagline fame for... TRAD ANGLICAN RESOURCE PAGE: http://eala.freeservers.com/anglican)
To: TaxRelief
The European Salmon farms are a disaster and our farms are heading in the same direction. Seems they're breeding places for disease.
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posted on
01/11/2004 10:43:42 AM PST
by
Arkie2
To: nickcarraway
Federal regulators and salmon-raising businesses, including California fish farms, said the study exaggerates the medical threat.
... the study, funded by the Pew Charitable Trust. Don't know much about the "Pew Charitable Trust", but I seem to recall from the days when I still watched TV that they "advertised" much on the left-wing NPR. Absent further input, this makes me somewhat suspicious...
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posted on
01/11/2004 10:46:55 AM PST
by
Eala
(Sacrificing tagline fame for... TRAD ANGLICAN RESOURCE PAGE: http://eala.freeservers.com/anglican)
To: Professional Engineer
ping
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posted on
01/11/2004 10:47:40 AM PST
by
msdrby
(US Veterans: All give some, but some give all.)
To: Canticle_of_Deborah; Desdemona
ping
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posted on
01/11/2004 10:49:09 AM PST
by
nickcarraway
(www.terrisfight.org)
To: nickcarraway
My wive and I went on a cruise to Alaska two years ago.
There is nothing like Alaskan Salmon.
You can smoke it, poach it, bake it, broil it......
To: Catspaw
Is there anything the food police says I can eat?They say eat sh!t and die!
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posted on
01/11/2004 10:50:01 AM PST
by
null and void
(Poor, poor Muttly....richer than many.)
To: nickcarraway
Maybe this problem extends to farm-raised fish of all types?
To: Canticle_of_Deborah
It probably doesn't help. One thing particular thing to salmon is the pink flesh. Farm-raised salmon doesn't have pink flesh, so they have to give it something to make it pink. They often feed farm-raised fish dog food, or something like it.
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posted on
01/11/2004 10:53:57 AM PST
by
nickcarraway
(www.terrisfight.org)
To: Eala
Absent further input, this makes me somewhat suspicious...I don't believe this "warning" represents anything except the continuing war against farmed animals of all kinds. This bunch doesn't want us to eat farmed OR wild salmon.
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posted on
01/11/2004 10:54:15 AM PST
by
toddst
To: nickcarraway
Salmon farmers should sue PETA, I mean the University of Michigan, for this one.
A quick
search of "Salmon Farming" PETA will demonstrate PETA's campaign against Salmon Farming throughout the world.
Salmon is one of the best sources of calcium and Omega-3, a fat that reduces cholesterol and reduces the clogging of arteries from cholesterol. Those on the Atkins diet will do themselves a huge disfavor if they reduce the level of Salmon or fish in their diet.
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posted on
01/11/2004 10:54:57 AM PST
by
TaxRelief
("Links" build the chain of knowledge)
To: nickcarraway
I love salmon and eat it regularly but almost always in restaurants. I eat it partly to cut down on my beef intake. One every two months is about normal for me but that's because of cost, not health concerns. I smother mine in lemon juice before eating. I never ask them where the fish came from and doubt some of them would know themselves.
I am somewhat suspicious of these types of "alarm" studies. Of course, I'm never going to be pregnant and if I get anything else it's my own fault. But nobody's going to talk me out of eating fish, shrimp, oysters and gumbo. They can try until they're blue in the face. It won't work.
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posted on
01/11/2004 10:56:37 AM PST
by
Tall_Texan
(Happy 2004 - the year we put Republicanism into overdrive.)
To: Arkie2
What are you basing your claims on?
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posted on
01/11/2004 10:56:38 AM PST
by
TaxRelief
("Links" build the chain of knowledge)
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