WARNING: High fat content in farmed salmon (white streaks) contains toxins
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1. Salmon farmers never shovel their manure, they just let it fall through the nets. Think kitty litter box, that never gets changed. Thousands of tons of feces and other waste on the seafloor around the sites that is never removed. READ MORE
2. 600,000 Atlantic salmon swimming in a soup of mucus and excrement - breeds pathogen mutations that enter the ocean and the supermarkets.
3. A US scientist studying toxins in farmed salmon told the media, "One should avoid farmed salmon like the plague."
4. Farmed salmon are colored pink to imitate wild salmon. Producers use the Salmo Fan to pick what color they want the fish to be. The colorant is added to the feed.
5. In April 2013, Norway got the European Union to allow 10xs more Endosulphan in farmed salmon feed. This is a pesticide banned in many parts of the world because it is so dangerous to human health.
6. If farmed salmon feed contains pig by-products, is smoked farmed salmon Kosher?
7. Seals, sea lions and birds become trapped and drown in salmon farm nets.
8. Farmed salmon cannot feed the world because they use more fish than they produce. Farm salmon eat pellets made of fish, grains, chicken by-products and oils. They contribute to fishing pressure driving wild stocks towards extinction.
9. Wild salmon have gone into decline everywhere salmon farms operate. This damages coastal economies and life in our coastal oceans.
10. Norwegian doctors warn mothers not to eat farmed salmon because the high levels of toxins in farmed salmon are known to be damaging to the developing brains in babies. Dr. Anne-Lise Bjørke Monsen risked her career to bring us this news. Toxicologist Claudette Bethune was fired by Norwegian government for trying to warn the public about high cadmium levels. Since so many people eat farmed salmon hoping it will benefit their health, it is important to check out what these women have to say.
WORLDWIDE SALMON FARMING IS LARGELY NORWEGIAN
98% of salmon farms in British Columbia, Canada are Norwegian. Norway farms salmon in Norway, Chile, Canada, Scotland, and the Faroe Islands.
Norway has lobbied the European Union to allow more cadium, GMO ingredients, Endosulphan and pig and chicken by-products in their farmed salmon feed. Today, the European Union allows far more toxins in farmed salmon than any other proteins widely eaten. How can such high levels of toxins be safe in farmed salmon when far less is approved for beef, chicken, eggs, cheese and pork? Has the industry lobbied itself into a biohazard? Many people believe that choosing farmed salmon is good for their health, their children and good for protecting wild salmon, but the overwhelming evidence suggests this is not the case.
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As an elementary school teacher and an avid sports fisherman, I teach kids about pacific salmon every year. This semester, I will be teaching a grade 4 class at a school minutes away from the Fraser River in the Fraser Valley. Researching for the instruction, I happened upon your video (Salmon Confidential). In short, I was grabbed at a gut level about a precious resource that I have always loved. I was blessed to have a father who took me fishing, and I have personally boycotted farmed salmon for many years. I would love to help in any way I can, and would very much like to get in touch with you to see if we can brainstorm how to get the next generation to fall in love with and care for this precious resource. Incidentally, I have planned an 'activism letter' language arts focus during the same time I will be teaching these kids about the salmon. I'd love to get some local and/or provincial press to pay attention to your issue (our issue!), and I'm confident I can get some kids on board to help. Interested?
Posted by: Matt Nielsen | 01/12/2014 at 09:11 PM
This list of ten reasons not to eat farmed salmon should have icons so we can Twitter the feed and Facebook it.
Posted by: Maureen FOSS | 01/16/2014 at 10:12 AM