Lex live: Salmon

Financial Times
Published: Jan 9 2004 13:08

If you thought salmon farmers might benefit from the discovery of a first case
of mad cow disease in the US, think again. Sales of farmed Atlantic salmon have
been growing rapidly in north America. Nutreco, the biggest fish in the
aquaculture pond, was predicting a further 16 per cent increase in US sales
volumes this year. That projection will now have to be revised down, after the
publication of research showing uncomfortably high levels of contaminants such
as dioxins and PCBs. The study - published not by some woolly environmentalists
but in Science, a serious magazine - suggests some Scottish farmed salmon is so
contaminated that it should be eaten no more than three times year.

The fish-farming industry has, predictably, leapt to the barricades. Its
apologists argue that the concentrations of contaminants fall well below the
levels viewed as acceptable by food safety agencies. They also argue that the
risks are, in any case, outweighed by the health benefits of eating fish rich
in fatty acids. It is more surprising that the UK Food Standards Agency should
spring quite so automatically to the fish farmers' defence.

When a product tastes as grim as most farmed salmon, however, consumers are
going to be willing to believe the worst. The latest research may not stop
customers from eating farmed salmon altogether, but it will certainly limit the
scope to raise prices from the rock-bottom levels which have helped fuel
consumption. That means that any hopes for the emergence of Nutreco, or smaller
fry such as Fjord Seafood, from their prolonged slump seem likely to be dashed.

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Baycobi wrote:
When a product tastes as grim as most farmed salmon,

False. Most farmed salmon tastes fine, and some tastes
great. At least in America.

I haven't compared store-bought farmed Atlantic salmon to
fresh, line-caught Scottish salmon, but I doubt any other
comparison would leave the farmed salmon with a rating of
"grim".

--Blair
"Bias resolved."

'Houghton' is a well known tout/shill/pimp for any corporate cause
that needs a hired mouth.
His posts on the Sushi newsgroup are classic examples of why one
should never eat farmed slugs-the babbling, drooling and ranting are
obviously caused by PCBs, Dioxins, Furans.
I mean no one could be that way naturally could they?





On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 07:40:09 GMT, Blair P. Houghton wrote:

Baycobi wrote:
When a product tastes as grim as most farmed salmon,

False. Most farmed salmon tastes fine, and some tastes
great. At least in America.

I haven't compared store-bought farmed Atlantic salmon to
fresh, line-caught Scottish salmon, but I doubt any other
comparison would leave the farmed salmon with a rating of
"grim".

--Blair
"Bias resolved."

Sam Salmon wrote:
'Houghton' is a well known tout/shill/pimp for any corporate cause
that needs a hired mouth.

How would you like my foot up your ass?

I'd be glad to oblige.

You going to be anywhere near Phoenix in the next month? Or
Phoenix or Peoria, Illinois in the next year?

His posts on the Sushi newsgroup are classic examples of why one
should never eat farmed slugs-the babbling, drooling and ranting are
obviously caused by PCBs, Dioxins, Furans.
I mean no one could be that way naturally could they?

You could be naturally bleeding.

--Blair
"Go ahead. Slander me again,
pencil-neck."

Blair P. Houghton wrote:

Baycobi wrote:

When a product tastes as grim as most farmed salmon,


False. Most farmed salmon tastes fine, and some tastes
great. At least in America.

I haven't compared store-bought farmed Atlantic salmon to
fresh, line-caught Scottish salmon, but I doubt any other
comparison would leave the farmed salmon with a rating of
"grim".

--Blair
"Bias resolved."
Since you admit you live away from the Pacific Northwest, it is kind of
interesting that you can make this leap of faith, your bias not
withstanding, nor resolved.
--
Alan

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

alzelt wrote:


Blair P. Houghton wrote:

Baycobi wrote:

When a product tastes as grim as most farmed salmon,


False. Most farmed salmon tastes fine, and some tastes
great. At least in America.

I haven't compared store-bought farmed Atlantic salmon to
fresh, line-caught Scottish salmon, but I doubt any other
comparison would leave the farmed salmon with a rating of
"grim".

--Blair
"Bias resolved."
Since you admit you live away from the Pacific Northwest, it is kind of
interesting that you can make this leap of faith, your bias not
withstanding, nor resolved.

What leap of faith?

I know what tastes good right here.

Hardly anyone lives in the PNW. Certainly not a quorum.

--Blair
"Certainly not anyone who
likes sunshine."

When a product tastes as grim as most farmed salmon, however

Tonight, I took an entire farmed salmon filet, rubbed thyme, dill, pepper,
minced garlic, and chopped scallions into it, braised in in olive oil, salted
it, and finished it off in the oven . . . removed it while it was slightly pink
in the center . . . drizzled it with lemon . . . served it over angel hair.

Nothing you wild salmon fetishists have ever had can be so sublime.

Neil