If you eat farmed salmon, you’re essentially consuming the sal | SHIFT

If you eat farmed salmon, you’re essentially consuming the salmon’s unnatural 90% vegetable oil diet as well. This also leads to 6x less omega-3 fatty acids.

The Environmental Working Group (EWG) tested farmed salmon from U.S. grocery stores and found farmed salmon had, on average:

• 16x more polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) than wild salmon
• 4x more PCBs than beef
• 3.4x more PCBs than other seafood

What’s more, in 2005 researchers found that farmed Atlantic salmon were so contaminated with PCBs, toxaphene, dieldrin, dioxins and polybrominated diphenyl ethers that they posed a cancer and additional health risks to humans, even when consumed in moderate amounts

I only recommend eating safer seafood choices such as wild-caught Alaskan salmon, sardines, anchovies, mackerel and herring. All of these are at low risk of contamination yet are high in healthy omega-3 fats. You’ll want to opt for sustainably harvested wild-caught fish as well

https://nexusnewsfeed.com/article/climate-ecology/farmed-salmon-is-getting-worse