Is Farmed Salmon This Evil?
The organization Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform (its anti-salmon farming website is Farmed and Dangerous) ran a truly scary ad Sunday in the New York Times in its ongoing effort to convince Safeway stores to stop selling farmed salmon. I have to say the ad scared the bejesus out of me, although I had already sworn off farmed salmon.
When you go to the above-mentioned website you get tons more anti-salmon farming rhetoric, like: "With all the chemicals in Safeway's farmed salmon you might as well eat the packaging."
Visit the Smarten Up Safeway action site and view the the New York Times ad here (pdf).
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2 Comments:
It's a horrible ad and while I'm at it, God bless farm-raised salmon. The arrogance of the people placing these ads amazes me. While fish farms continue to improve their operations and their impact on the seas, the answer is not to demonize them. The future of seafood production is in aquaculture as wild stocks continue to be overfished worldwide. Fish farms can build for future protein needs, so why don't we just work on making the process better and cleaner? Oh, that's right, it's just easier to be holier than thou and criticize, criticize, criticize.
biscuitbaker at 2:46PM on 06/25/07
While I may not agree with the scare tactic advertising, by most accounts farmed salmon is considered neither eco-friendly nor sustainable. On the other hand, wild-caught Alaskan salmon (besides tasting much better) is labeled as sustainable by the Marine Stewardship Council and on the Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch's "Best Choices" list. Aquaculture may be the answer to rampant overfishing, but it is very short-sighted to universally hand out blank checks and pats on the back to all forms of fish farming.
sfchin at 3:58PM on 06/25/07