[nickcarraway]

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.

[jwalburg]

Gotta watch that fram-raised variety. Loved this headline, by the way!

[Catspaw]

Is there anything the food police says I can eat?

[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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[TaxRelief]

University of Michigan and PETA team up again.

This study is guaranteed to be full of holes.

[Eala]

Hypocrisy is wanting to "Save the Salmon"... then eating them.

[Eala]

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...

[msdrby]

ping

[Michael_S]

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......

[TaxRelief]

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.

[Tall_Texan]

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.

[Bernard Marx]

The report found that farmed fish in European countries had the highest toxic load.

So let the EU solve its own problems. Americans should buy only domestically-farmed salmon or salmon from Chile, etc. if they can't find or afford wild salmon.

I just pulled two alder-flavored Atlantic beauties out of the smoker this morning. I don't worry about scare stories like this: consider the source.

[Maigrey]

Sounds like a bunch of hooey to me, along with tainted research methods.

[Age of Reason]

Also, did you know that the color of farm raised salmon flesh gray?

They artificially dye the flesh to imitate the flesh of wild salmon, which gets its pink color from certain of the wild food it eats.

[Carry_Okie]

But wild salmon is definitely superior to fram-raised, not least in flavor.

Good wild salmon is superior. However, The wild product is more variable. There are often bruised and spoiled fish off the boats. As far as omega-3 goes, the aquaculture industry is fixing that by adding flax seed to the feed.

[Mike Darancette]

Wild salmon caught off the California coast was not included in the study.

Because they probably glow in the dark and have vestigial legs.

[ikka]

I buy mine at Costco. $3.99 per pound, fresh, no bones, tastes great!

[Henchman]

I read somewhere that a few toxins are good for you. Seems they equate it to pouring weed killer on a weed in an amount which was not sufficient to kill it. The weed grows bigger and stronger.

I've seen that effect in the yard myself. However, as I eventually succeeded in terminating the weed by what ever means and force necessary, I have no idea how long the super weed would have lived with the enhancing toxins.

I would appreciate it if all super salmon eaters would post on a weekly interval with all their personal statistics. That way, on demise, we could have a completed study of the Salmon situation

[the invisib1e hand]

SALMON WARNING

I thought someone had threatened Salmon Rushdie again.

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Reuters - Chile Salmon Farmers Say US - Bound Fish Safe
"...The PCBs found in salmon cultivated in North and South America were 80 times lower than the allowable level set by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration..."

"... the sample used by researchers at the University of Indiana were obtained two years ago and the industry has improved its feeding methods since then. "...The industry has made constant efforts to reduce the presence of PCBs, which is reflected in a reduction, according to the FDA, of 28 percent between 1998 and 2001..."

Norway refutes doubts cast on salmon
"...Salmon tested was raw with its skin intact. Once the skin is removed and the salmon warmed up, the researchers conceded, the quantities of high-risk substances were considerably diminished..."

"...levels of potentially dangerous substances lay well within guidelines set by both the European Union and the World Health Organization for what was safe to eat..."

FDA: Something's fishy about study finding farmed salmon dangerous
"...The Food and Drug Administration insisted that the levels of pollutants in farm-raised salmon are too low for serious concern..."

"...the study tested salmon raw, with the skin on. Removing the skin and grilling it removes a significant amount of PCBs, dioxins and other pollutants stored in fish fat, the FDA noted..."