Wild salmon or Farmed?
By Uroborus
@Uroborus (908)
Canada
December 31, 2007 11:37pm CST
I love eating salmon. But retailers don't always state clearly if the salmon they sell is wild or farmed. I prefer wild for taste and also because it's better for your health and the environment. What do other people think?
3 responses
@allilou (9)
• United States
2 Jan 08
I try to exclusively eat wild caught salmon; I've heard and read awful things about farmed fish which makes me wary of it.
Not only are the fish farms apparently hard on the environments, with all the waste from the fish coming out in one place, but because of all the waste, the fish ingest a lot of it and can be sickly. Then the farmers can pump them full of antibiotics (which I don't want in my food!). Also, I think that the feed they give farmed salmon is not what they are meant to eat (the same way cattle in large farms are fed corn, which is basically like people eating fast food all the time).
Luckily all the grocery stores around me clearly label of the salmon is wild or farmed, so I don't have to worry too much! :)
@bstinson1989 (588)
• United States
1 Jan 08
I would have to say that I have had both wild, and farmed salmon. My favorite kind of salmon would have to be wild as well. Wild salmon has a taste too it that cannot be explained- an explosition in ones mouth, if you will. My understanding is, the only reason why people farm salmon is for the money. They are easier to catch. Also, with farmed salmon, it allows the farmer to inject the salmon with so many things, that by the time it is all said and over with- its not even salmon anymore. I prefer salmon 100 percent natural.