"James Silverton" wrote in message
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"Sam Salmon" wrote in message
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Regular readers here will be familiar with my strident opposition to
the ecologically destructive and economically unsustainable Salmon
Aquaculture aka Salmon Farming Industry.
They will also be familiar with the shills and pimps for same said
abomination-by their lies and falsehoods you shall know them.
Well today the Salmon Farming industry was dealt a heavy body blow by
the Scientific Journal Science http://www.sciencemag.org




http://www.davidsuzuki.org/Campaigns...re01080401.asp



I also see that the FDA has effectively dismissed the findings of that
study.

That dismissal is almost a conditioned reflex but do you remember when the
British Agricultural Minister "demonstrated" the safety of the beef supply
by feeding his little daughter a hamburger on television? It was quite a
bust since she refused to eat it! is clear that serious investigation of
feeding practices for farmed fish is called for since, unfortunately,
that's
how we will be able to get affordable fish in the future.


This type of problem exists with nearly any food source that we can farm,
from shrimp
to fish to pigs. I guess it's the nature of operating a closed system.
And to be sure, certainly safeguards should be put into place for everyones
benefit.
The problem is to me is that the economic-emotional war going on between the
wild-salmon advocates and the farmed-salmon advocates don't do anything to
help the consumer.

Farmed salmon is not always sold as "farmed salmon". Sometimes it is sold as
"Atlantic Salmon".
How are we consumers suppose to know which is which?
Sometimes I see tags that say "Silver salmon" or "King salmon". These I know
are suppose to
be coho and chinook. But are they "wild" just because they are pacific
salmon species?
I know for a fact that some pacific species are beng farmed.
Finally we consumers need to see a price break on "wild salmon" is the
advocates want
the public to switch over. In fact, in most cases here on the east coast,
not only is it a
price issue, it is also an availability issue. You often simply can not find
and "wild" salmon
for sale, whereas the "farmed/atlantic" is everywhere.
So perhaps some laws standardizing the labelling of salmon, a break in
prices of wild salmon
and better distribution would go much farther than ranting about it on a
usenet forum to
people who often siimply don't have a choice.