2022-02-03
The Defender, mouthpiece for R.F.K Jr's Children's Health Defence, reviews the healthy eating options for salmon, a fish that used to be caught "wild" in my youth by rod and line but has since many years now been "farmed".
It's relatively easy to farm land animals, given appropriate fencing, but it's tricky and probably prohibitively expensive to fence off an area of tidal loch, so salmon tends to be kept in cages with a wholly unnatural livestock density. To me it seems obvious that this amounts to gross cruelty, since in its wild state a salmon is spawned in an upstream river and migrates vast distances across the world before returning to it's home waters to create it's own off-spring in turn.
It is a totally artificial ecosystem.
Rearing of such a creature in a static and comparatively tiny cage and expecting good results doesn't strike me as logical or realistic.
According to The Defender, it s also (and not surprisingly) unhealthy, producing markedly and visibly different fish of inferior nutritional value.
"Food testing reveals farmed salmon is one of the most toxic foods in the world, having more in common with junk food than health food. Studies highlighting the seriousness of the problem date back more than a decade"
Now I don't doubt that there are fish farms and fish farms, but I also suspect that there is no such thing as a healthy farmed salmon - the conditions are simply too far removed from their natural life cycle to be consistent with a healthy product. That's just my opinion, based on common sense and a lot of articles that I have read in the past.
This is a long way from being a new issue, and CHD have done us a favour by reviewing the current state of the art and bringing us up to date.
(55 minutes - just play it - it works!)
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