Posted by JLx on October 31, 2004, at 10:12:02
In reply to Re: Fish oil » JLx, posted by Larry Hoover on October 30, 2004, at 12:45:48
> > I actually like fish a lot and could it 4-5 times a week (especially smoked salmon) but I worry about the mercury as I already have mercury amalgams. I was eating farm raised salmon until I read about it. Did you know that they have to dye it pink, otherwise it's gray? Because they don't eat what wild salmon eat. For that reason they also have less Omega-3. It's very frustrating that we CAN'T eat a lot of fish without all these pollution worries.
> According to the USDA database, farmed Atlantic salmon has more omega-3 fatty acids than does wild caught.
This is a copy of a NYT article that I read last year: http://www.fass.org/fasstrack/news_item.asp?news_id=1264
"While all salmon in the store may look similar, the Department of Agriculture says farmed salmon contains almost twice the total fat, more than twice the saturated fat and fewer beneficial omega-3 fatty acids than wild salmon."
"farmed salmon are not naturally salmon pink or red, and that if they were not fed artificial colors they would range from gray or khaki to pale yellow or pale pink. Wild salmon turn pink from the krill and shrimp they eat. (Farmed salmon eat a fishmeal diet.)"
This was the study I had read about recently http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article861693.ece and it made sense to me as it's similar to the difference between grain or grass fed beef.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=2296923&dopt=Abstract
That's a very tiny sample.
Can we trust the USDA on this one?
> Farmed fish is attracting far more adverse publicity than it deserves, IMHO, at least from a nutritional or contaminant standpoint. Pollutant levels in virtually all fish are falling with time (excluding those caught near polluting industries), both in wild caught and farmed fish. The health studies that have shown that fish eaters were healthier than those who ate none were conducted on people who ate more heavily polluted fish than that which is available today. All food is contaminated. The reason fish has attracted this attention is a political act.
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> Here are a couple of links to things I wrote.
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> Lar
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> http://www.google.ca/groups?hl=en&lr=&selm=qo5Mb.119%24k97.33817%40news20.bellglobal.com
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> http://www.google.ca/groups?hl=en&lr=&selm=fXRIc.11766%24RD4.875328%40news20.bellglobal.comThanks for the links. I don't worry so much about carcinogens, hoping the best for my immune system there, as mercury specifically, as I already have enough of that stuff, but apparently mercury doesn't accumulate in the flesh of salmon, so that's good.
I like salmon a lot. Please convince me, Larry, that the farm raised variety is a good thing. :)
JL
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