Musashi wrote:
Farmed salmon is not always sold as "farmed salmon". Sometimes it is sold as
"Atlantic Salmon".

They are the same kind of salmon, but, if it's farmed,
I think it must be labelled as farmed, and if it's not
labelled as farmed, it's not farmed.

I tried to look it up, but nobody at .gov wants to make
it easy to find information these days. At least, not in
this direction. They're always making it easier for them
to poke into our business.

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.

That would be good. Because pacific salmon have a higher
incidence of parasites that they get from their food,
and the pelletized feed is parasite-free.

Finally we consumers need to see a price break on "wild salmon" is the
advocates want
the public to switch over.

But that's the point of the propaganda campaign. They want
to drive down demand for farmed salmon and increase demand
for wild salmon so they not only don't have to reduce the
price, but can increase it.

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.

They don't want you to have a choice. They want the farms
shut down.

--Blair
"Fallacy of the excluded middle."