Fish

WholeFoods4Lyfe
WholeFoods4Lyfe Posts: 1,518 Member
in Food and Nutrition
It makes me sad that it is getting harder and harder to find Wild Caught, non-farmed fish. The fact that most of the salmon in the grocery store has color added is just wrong. I'm lucky that I found a company at my local farmers market that buys directly from the fisheries in Alaska so I can now get good, wild spawned wild caught salmon, but now it's getting harder and harder to find many different kinds of fish that aren't farm raised and fed artificial diets. I've been considering ordering online because I've been so disappointed with the selections locally. No point to this post really, more of a vent than anything.

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  • rbfdac
    rbfdac Posts: 1,057 Member
    Eh, I enjoy store-bought farmed fish just fine.
  • WholeFoods4Lyfe
    WholeFoods4Lyfe Posts: 1,518 Member
    rbfdac wrote: »
    Eh, I enjoy store-bought farmed fish just fine.

    I have a preference for eating animals that are raised/fed/slaughtered as humanly/naturally as possible. So my chickens/eggs are pastured/free range/soy free eating a natural diet of bugs, etc. My beef is grass fed. My milk is Raw. My fish is Wild. I realize not everyone is like this :)

  • MelaniaTrump
    MelaniaTrump Posts: 2,694 Member
    edited April 2016
    The food farm raised is garbage. No omega 3's.
    Raised in crowded tanks eating their own poop half the time.
    Buckets of antibiotics poured in to keep them alive to kill parasites.
    Yuck.
    Now they are even making GMO salmon combined with some sort of eel type animal.
    And.. .food labels are not required to tell you.
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    It's not hard to find it where I live (although it can be crazy expensive at the grocery store, for sure). I often get trout at the green market or go to a fish market.
  • psuLemon
    psuLemon Posts: 38,427 MFP Moderator
    If you have a wegmans near you, then its a good place to go. They have 3 or 4 types of salmon alone (farm raised, wild caught, EU Organic, etc...). But at 3-4x the price, it isn't worth it for me.
  • pittdan77
    pittdan77 Posts: 98 Member
    Could travel north every year and catch your own. Not being a jerk. I know people who do that. Could also try mail order maybe?
  • WholeFoods4Lyfe
    WholeFoods4Lyfe Posts: 1,518 Member
    pittdan77 wrote: »
    Could travel north every year and catch your own. Not being a jerk. I know people who do that. Could also try mail order maybe?

    I do actually catch some of my own. My husband and I both fish, so I get Bass and Trout and then freeze whatever I don't eat right away. My BIL goes Flounder Fishing and usually gives me his excess. Like I said, I did find a company that sells at my local Farmers Market that buys direct from the fisheries in Alaska.

    I did go to Whole Foods today and bought some Blue Fish for dinner tonight, so that's something :)

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