Low Quality meat/fish Vs None at all?

JenPass1977

I'd rather eat farmed fish just to help preserve the wild sources. If we only ate wild we'd have no salmon left. Totally up to you though of course.

SpecialSundae

Throwing it away is far worse than eating it. The difference in health benefits between wild salmon and farmed salmon is minimal (ditto between grain fed and grass fed meat, to be honest) but throwing away food which is perfectly edible is unforgiveable waste.

lemurcat12

SpecialSundae wrote: »

Throwing it away is far worse than eating it. The difference in health benefits between wild salmon and farmed salmon is minimal (ditto between grain fed and grass fed meat, to be honest) but throwing away food which is perfectly edible is unforgiveable waste.

This is what I think too.

Also, it all depends on why you have the rule against eating grain-fed cattle. If due to concern for the environment or the well-being of the animals, the issues relating to cattle (which are not crystal clear, IMO, as there is a range for both grain-fed and 100% pastured) may not apply to salmon. If due to health, you'd again have to consider whether they apply (and I tend to agree that health concerns aren't a particularly strong reason to go for grass-fed cattle, even though I personally choose grass-fed simply because I prefer to buy from local farms).

If the concern is environmental or animal welfare, I'd say don't buy the product if you think it's encouraging bad things, but once purchased no good comes from wasting it.

Need2Exerc1se

SpecialSundae wrote: »

Throwing it away is far worse than eating it. The difference in health benefits between wild salmon and farmed salmon is minimal (ditto between grain fed and grass fed meat, to be honest) but throwing away food which is perfectly edible is unforgiveable waste.

Why unforgiveable? Who is harmed if I throw out undesirable food?

import69

Melmo1988 wrote: »

Why can't you return it?

You cant return fish once it's left the store unless there is a good reason or something wrong with it.

kshama2001

Looks like there was a problem with farmed Norwegian salmon which has since been reduced by changing the feed. I'd want to know what country my farmed salmon came from and would not buy that farmed in countries with ongoing food safety issues like China.

Norway says controversial farmed salmon is safe, urges public to eat more of it

...Norway is the world's biggest producer of farmed salmon, and it is one of the country's main export earners after oil.

...According to the new report, farmed salmon now contains 70 percent less dioxins and PCBs than when Norwegian authorities last did major tests in 2006, and levels of mercury have been halved due to changes in what fish are now fed on.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/eats/norway-farmed-salmon-safe-public-eat-article-1.2047012

I'd also want antibiotic-free feed.

Addicted to antibiotics, Chile's salmon flops at Costco, grocers

Chile's salmon farmers are using record levels of antibiotics to treat a virulent and pervasive bacteria, driving away some U.S. retailers including Costco Wholesale Corp, which is turning to antibiotic-free Norwegian salmon.

The coastal waters of Chile, the world's second-largest producer of salmon, are awash with a bacteria known as SRS, or Piscirickettsiosis. The bacteria causes lesions and haemorrhaging in infected fish, and swells their kidneys and spleens, eventually killing them.

Unable to develop an effective vaccine, Chilean farmers have been forced to increase antibiotic use. In 2014, the industry produced around 895,000 tonnes of fish and used 563,200 kilograms (1.2 million pounds) of antibiotics, according to government and industry data. Antibiotic use had risen 25 percent from 2013.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-chile-salmon-antibiotics-feature-idUSKCN0PX1IG20150723