Egads! I'm almost sorry I brought up the subject of salmon!
I'm wondering if it's safe to eat ANY fish at all?
ScottGee1
On 6/23/05, Winsor Crosby <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Wild salmon are loaded with brain damaging mercury and farm salmon
> with cancer causing PCBs. Nice choice. Any ocean fish as large as
> salmon are too dangerous to eat frequently. Many of the river and
> lake fish in places like Minnesota are too dangerous to eat at all
> because of mercury. The allowable limit for mercury emissions from
> coal burning power plants was just raised by lobbyist written
> legislation to make sure you get your share even if you avoid fish
> from polluted sources.
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> Winsor
> Long Beach, California, USA
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> On Jun 23, 2005, at 12:21 AM, Vlad the Impaler wrote:
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> > "Norwegian Fjord salmon" are raised in farms (in Norwegian fjords,
> > probably near to some chemical plant...) and fed ground up other fish,
> > or actually the creatures they get along with the fish they really
> > want
> > when vaccuuming the North Atlantic. There have been complaints from
> > Norway that pollutants and diseased water from Sweden has caused havoc
> > with their salmon farms.
> > A long time ago in Sweden, salmon was so plentiful that sometimes
> > labourers were guaranteed not to be given salmon to eat too often,
> > as it
> > was considered more or less junk food. I wonder what they would have
> > though of the frozen stuff you get nowadays.
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> > Jonas
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