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Fishy Farming Practices
With ocean fisheries under intense stress, you might naturally conclude that farmed fish would be the way out. But there's something suspicious about current fish farming practices.
Most of the fish we eat are carnivorous. On the farm, they're fed pellets of ground fish. But those pellets actually concentrate the pollution that fish accumulate in their bodies.
There's also concern over the use of untested drugs in farmed fish.
Farmed shrimp are especially bad--shrimp farms have damaged mangrove swamps, polluted the ocean, and contaminated surrounding farmlands. They've also been responsible for outbreaks of marine diseases in ocean areas.
Sadly, the contamination of the Earth's water systems means that even wild fish are no longer reliably safe to eat, but they're probably safer than their farmed alternative.
Most wild-caught fish are labeled. But there's still a "catch." The FDA doesn't regulate fish labeling, and Consumer Reports discovered, almost half the salmon labeled "wild" were actually from farms. That means we need FDA rules, as for chicken and beef. Until that happens, buy carefully, from trusted sources only.
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