Facts about farmed salmon
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Chris Gupta
Most salmon sold today is not wild. It is farmed. Farmed salmon are grown in floating netcages and impact wild salmon and other marine species by spreading disease and parasites.
Here are the health reasons to avoid farmed salmon:
1- Farmed salmon are given antibiotics that are also used to treat human illness. This contributes to the dangerous increase of antibiotic-resistant disease worldwide.
2- Farmed salmon receive more antibiotics by weight than any other livestock.
3- Farmed salmon contain higher levels of unhealthy saturated fats and lower levels of beneficial omega-3 fatty acids. A U.S. Agriculture Department study found farmed Atlantic salmon contain 70 percent more fat than wild Atlantic salmon because of the high fat content in their feed.
4- Farmed Atlantic salmon contain 200 percent more fat than wild Pacific pink or chum salmon. World Health Organization (WHO)(1999).
5- Farmed salmon are also administered chemical dyes to colour their flesh an appealing salmon pink; otherwise the flesh would be grey.
Some types of wild Pacific salmon are not farmed. Those are: Sockeye, Chum, Pink
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