On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, AG Schnozz wrote:
> > Yes farm raised salmon toxins are higher, including mercury
> > due to the feed they are given (pellets of ground up larger fish).
> > Last report I heard was that even the salmon color is not natural but
> > a DYE !!
>
> Hey, now you're scairing me. I eat this stuff (the salmon, not
> the pellets) once or twice a week. The heavy metals probably
> help out my B&W work.
Apparantly the colour of salmon is very dependent on their diet. I've
heard they feed farmed salmon shrimp shells to give them a pinkish colour
instead of the pale white which they get from eating pellets. I've never
heard of dye being used.
-mark
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