WASHINGTON (AP) -- Farm-raised salmon contain significantly more dioxins and
other potentially cancer-causing pollutants than do salmon caught in the
wild, says a major study that tested contaminants in fish bought around the
world.

Full story:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/01/08....ap/index.html

--
Peter Aitken

Remove the crap from my email address before using.

Not only more dioxins but they are fed pellets made up of rendered
bodies of cats and dogs and road kill. This mix is sold to farmers who
raise the salmon on the east coast and to the chinese and thailand
farmers of shellfish such as shrimp.
All the non-wild fish and shell fish are fed this mix.
Well now you get to enjoy fido and fluffy twice.
Matt

Peter Aitken wrote:

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Farm-raised salmon contain significantly more dioxins and
other potentially cancer-causing pollutants than do salmon caught in the
wild, says a major study that tested contaminants in fish bought around the
world.

Full story:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/01/08....ap/index.html

Quoting from _Scientific_American_, April 1997, page 28:

"Because the [PrP] protein may, in rare circumstances,
be able to convert to an infectious form, farm-raised salmon,
like beef, could in theory pose a public health threat."

This article is commenting on the discovery that salmon
brains also contain the PrP protein, which has both a
normal form and an abnormal form, the latter of which
is responsible for Mad Cow Disease.

On 2004-01-09, wrote:
Not only more dioxins but they are fed pellets made up of rendered
bodies of cats and dogs and road kill.

This is total crap! Salmon are fed fish protein ...one of the reasons
farmed salmon are not really eco-friendly.

The main problem is simply too many people ...period! Thanks to the Pope
and other cheaper-by-the-dozen cultures, were overgrazing the world pasture.

We need a good plague, or two. Or, put some of that bio-engineering to good
use and give the human race a lemming gene.

"Hey guys, what say we try bungee jumping without the bungee!!?".

nb

"notbob" wrote in message
news:YPoLb.2727$sv6.9664@attbi_s52...
On 2004-01-09, wrote:
Not only more dioxins but they are fed pellets made up of rendered
bodies of cats and dogs and road kill.

This is total crap! Salmon are fed fish protein ...one of the reasons
farmed salmon are not really eco-friendly.

The main problem is simply too many people ...period! Thanks to the Pope
and other cheaper-by-the-dozen cultures, were overgrazing the world
pasture.

We need a good plague, or two. Or, put some of that bio-engineering to
good
use and give the human race a lemming gene.

"Hey guys, what say we try bungee jumping without the bungee!!?".

nb

As off the wall as NotBob may seem, there is some truth to what he says.
The fact of nature is that when we do become overpopulated, natural controls
will eventually take over - plagues, death, etc...

"Peter Aitken" wrote:

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Farm-raised salmon contain significantly more dioxins and
other potentially cancer-causing pollutants than do salmon caught in the
wild, says a major study that tested contaminants in fish bought around the
world.

Full story:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/01/08....ap/index.html


The benefits of eating salmon for reduction of cardiovascular disease far
outweigh the risks demonstrated by this study. Hopefully, the public will
consider the cost/benefit before rejecting salmon as unsafe

Dennis

On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 03:01:12 GMT, notbob
wrote:


We need a good plague, or two. Or, put some of that bio-engineering to good
use and give the human race a lemming gene.


I thought that was the subtext of war... clean out the gene
pool.


Practice safe eating - always use condiments

Dennis G. wrote:

"Peter Aitken" wrote:


WASHINGTON (AP) -- Farm-raised salmon contain significantly more dioxins and
other potentially cancer-causing pollutants than do salmon caught in the
wild, says a major study that tested contaminants in fish bought around the
world.

Full story:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/01/08....ap/index.html



The benefits of eating salmon for reduction of cardiovascular disease far
outweigh the risks demonstrated by this study. Hopefully, the public will
consider the cost/benefit before rejecting salmon as unsafe

Dennis
So, eat other fish or wild salmon.
--
Alan

"If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and
avoid the people, you might better stay home."
--James Michener

Mark Thorson wrote:
Quoting from _Scientific_American_, April 1997, page 28:

"Because the [PrP] protein may, in rare circumstances,
be able to convert to an infectious form, farm-raised salmon,
like beef, could in theory pose a public health threat."

This article is commenting on the discovery that salmon
brains also contain the PrP protein, which has both a
normal form and an abnormal form, the latter of which
is responsible for Mad Cow Disease.

They also cause AIDS in lab rats.

--Blair
"RUN AWAY!
RUN AWAY!"

Dennis G. wrote:
"Peter Aitken" wrote:

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Farm-raised salmon contain significantly more dioxins and
other potentially cancer-causing pollutants than do salmon caught in the
wild, says a major study that tested contaminants in fish bought around the
world.

Full story:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/01/08....ap/index.html


The benefits of eating salmon for reduction of cardiovascular disease far
outweigh the risks demonstrated by this study. Hopefully, the public will
consider the cost/benefit before rejecting salmon as unsafe

"The salmon farming industry points out that all the
pollutant levels are well within the FDA's legal limits
and says other foods eaten far more often, such as beef,
are greater sources of exposure."

--Blair
"Chicken Little needed a recipe
for acorns, is all."

"Peter Aitken" wrote in message
.com...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Farm-raised salmon contain significantly more dioxins
and
other potentially cancer-causing pollutants than do salmon caught in the
wild, says a major study that tested contaminants in fish bought around
the
world.

Full story:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/01/08....ap/index.html


This will unleash a flood of "I told ya so" posts.

Fish farming is necessary if we are going to continue to eat fish. I wish
the anti-farming side would put their energy into creating a better way to
farm fish rather than just trying to eliminate the idea.

On the good side, it's a wake up call, much like the mad cow episode of
late, to tighten up and improve conditions. Of course, alarmists will be
alarmists.

Jaquaculture

While frolicking around in rec.food.cooking, alzelt of AT&T Worldnet
said:

So, eat other fish or wild salmon.

How do I know if the salmon I buy is wild?
--
Nikitta a.a. #1759 Apatriot(No, not apricot)#18
ICQ# 251532856
Unreferenced footnotes: http://www.nut.house.cx/cgi-bin/nemwiki.pl?ISFN
"The best ballerina is an upside down ballerina. (afdaniain)

MEow wrote in
:

While frolicking around in rec.food.cooking, alzelt of AT&T Worldnet
said:

So, eat other fish or wild salmon.

How do I know if the salmon I buy is wild?

If it says Atlantic Salmon it is farmed.

--
Once during Prohibition I was forced to live for days on nothing but food
and water.
--------
FIELDS, W. C.

(snip)

This will unleash a flood of "I told ya so" posts.

Fish farming is necessary if we are going to continue to eat fish. I wish
the anti-farming side would put their energy into creating a better way to
farm fish rather than just trying to eliminate the idea.

On the good side, it's a wake up call, much like the mad cow episode of
late, to tighten up and improve conditions. Of course, alarmists will be
alarmists.

Jaquaculture


I hear ya, Jack, and I concur. I figure, we're all going to die from
something someday anyway. If we have to farm our seafood (shellfish and
fish) because we're over-populated and depleted our waters, so be it. It
still tastes good.

Okay, flamers, go ahead......

kili

This will unleash a flood of "I told ya so" posts.

Fish farming is necessary if we are going to continue to eat fish.
I wish the anti-farming side would put their energy into creating a
better way to farm fish rather than just trying to eliminate the
idea.

On the good side, it's a wake up call, much like the mad cow episode
of late, to tighten up and improve conditions. Of course, alarmists
will be alarmists.

I hear ya, Jack, and I concur. I figure, we're all going to die from
something someday anyway. If we have to farm our seafood (shellfish
and fish) because we're over-populated and depleted our waters, so be
it. It still tastes good.

Okay, flamers, go ahead......

i think there is a potential for long term damage to a much wider area than
just the pens. dumping lots of food (and antibiotics) into a pen might do
bad things to the bay it is in, and in turn to the species that live (or
spawn) in that bay, ... in worst case it would all fan out from there.

in the best case someone would do some science and figure it out - but i'm
afraid we are in the modern situation now - with "company scientists" on one
side and "environmentalist scientists" on the other. the reader is left to
glean a little bit of the story from either side.

but fwiw i think damage to areas around the pens is a risk worth
considering.