Why "Organic" Farmed Salmon is Causing a Nasty Smell

re: Why "Organic" Farmed Salmon is Causing a Nasty Smell

hp12vb — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:09:31 GMT

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re: Why "Organic" Farmed Salmon is Causing a Nasty Smell

danielrogers — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 05:27:15 GMT

Don't be put off by aquaculture because after the oceans have been raped of all fish stocks, we will be looking to farmed fish for the demand. I'll admit that aquaculture today has many problems, mainly environmental, but its still relativelly new and if you want to see how fast it is growing you only need look at www.fao.org to view the statistics. It is possible today to farm fish in an environmentally friendly way as well as being healthy to the consumer. The problem today is that there are few regulations to make this happen in America, making it easier for the farmer to make a profit. Here in Australia however we have very strict regulations making it hard for the farmer to make a living, but it produces the best quality fish.

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curious7 — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 20:56:06 GMT

One should have guessed that where a dollar was involved, big business would find a means of exploiting the moniker for it's own gain. Even to the point of lying about.

People who deal in true Organics, should set up their own grading systems, because we cannot rely on our government for anything but a lie.

re: Why "Organic" Farmed Salmon is Causing a Nasty Smell

EQ — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 01:44:00 GMT

Not only is farmed salmon bad for human's health, it is bad for the neighboring wild salmon population. The farms are overcrowded just like other factory food operations. The salmon get sea lice and spread it to the native wild populations. The adults can handle it, but the juveniles die. Keeping healthy wild salmon populations is one of the issues that is most important to me in the general environmental scheme, and it's amazing how connected to everything else it is. Salmon worship: is it wrong?

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Conscious Evolution — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 23:01:12 GMT

Yes but Major you have to Understand that the reason the Government lowered organic standards in the first place was because of Pressure from the Food and Drug Industries and the processing Industries and Monsanto. You blame the Government for everything but they are just puppets for Corporations. Who would you truly blame? The Puppet or the Master? We the people have lost control of the Government to the Corporations. I am a Libertarian but I realize that by shrinking the Government you’re helping but not taking full care of the core problem. Only by dealing with the corrupt power structure and shifting the balance back to the constitution can you heal the disease and not just treat the symptom.

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catuskan60 — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 15:56:25 GMT

It's really disheartening to me to know that the government allows all this unnatural breeding and raising of our food supply, allowing growth hormones, pesticides, antibiotics, GM foods, unnatural farm raised fish, animals living lives of suffering and misery, no animal welfare in the slaughterhouses. The FDA and the USDA are two useless departments who care more about how fat their wallets are rather than what's good for the consumer. What happened to government "for the people".

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The Major — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 03:44:52 GMT

This is what happens when government gets involved in defining industry terminologies. Prior to the government officially defining organic practices, many of the producers were holding themselves to higher standards than what the government now allows and organic food really was better. The word organic means nothing now. Most of the food you buy with an organic label isn't any better than other food, it only costs more.

re: Why "Organic" Farmed Salmon is Causing a Nasty Smell

seg — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:29:37 GMT

Why "Organic" Farmed Salmon is Causing a Nasty Smell

Just to answer the title above, it's causing a nasty smell because it's plain NASTY, end of story........

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Linda24 — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:53:03 GMT

It just never ends. I only buy wild caught fish. And, I don't eat fish that often anyway because of all the "scares" out there about what's in our fish. Let's face it folks, our waterways are extremely polluted. And nothing will change that.

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Cheryl Rounds — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 09:23:54 GMT

Quite a while ago, I asked the seafood merchant about the apparent contradiction on organic farmed salmon. His response was that the only way a fish could be certified organic is if it was farmed raised - otherwise they had could not certify that the fish were eating organic feed. Excuse me but I wasn't aware that the small fish and plankton that wild salmon eat out in the middle of the oceans are bing farmed with herbacides and pesticides LOL. I'll stick to wild fish - thank you.
Cheryl Rounds

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mmc88121 — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:14:01 GMT

How can they call farm raised Salmon "organic". It seems like an oxymoron. Salmon are supposed to be wild.

Mary

re: Why "Organic" Farmed Salmon is Causing a Nasty Smell

foxtroter_203 — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:48:45 GMT

Where are the Omega-3s? I'll bet you that the "organic" farm raised salmon have the same problem that corn fed beef does compared to grass fed beef---- feed animals feed that is deficient in Omega-3 fatty acids and the meat produced by the animal will be deficient in Omega-3s----and probably have excessive amounts of pro-inflammatory Omega-6s.