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http://www.greendaily.com/2008/05/14/enjoy-seafood-dont-read-this/

* "Farmed salmon is fed with a meal made from the hydrolyzed poultry feathers and the ground-up carcasses of chickens culled from avian flu outbreaks.
* In 2007, melamine, the toxic additive from China that killed pets throughout North America , was found in the pellets used to feed farmed salmon.
* Scallops are routinely soaked in STP, a neurotoxicant used in paint strippers and carpet cleaners, so they'll retain water and weigh more at supermarket check-outs.
* In almost two-thirds of stores in the United States , inspectors have found that salmon sold as high priced "wild-caught" is actually from a farm.
* Thanks to global warming, eating grouper, red snapper, and other reef fish is infecting increasing numbers of diners with ciguatera, a potentially fatal disease that causes vomiting, abdominal cramps, and bizarre neurological symptoms.
* Prawns are routinely rinsed in chlorine to kill pathogens, and processors in countries like India and Thailand use caustic soda and borax to artificially color the prawns they export to Europe and North America .
* Because juvenile salmon are now stocked in freshwater lakes in South America before being farmed, they're picking up parasites from lake fish. For the first time, eating salmon, in the form of gravlax, salmon sashimi, and ceviche, can give you tapeworms.
* Because of high levels of mercury, Health Canada recently advised that children under five should eat no more than one can of albacore tuna per week.
* Scottish farmed salmon is so laden with PCBs and dioxins that, according to Environmental Protection Agency standards, having a fillet more than once every four months significantly increases your risk of cancer.
* Tilapia and tuna are treated with carbon monoxide, also known as 'tasteless smoke,' to prevent them from turning brown. A piece of tuna sprayed with tasteless smoke will remain a marketable cherry red even if it's kept in a car's trunk for several months. "

Delicious!

If you haven't got the book, I'd highly recommend a look at Grescoe's website, which offers a handy summary of what seafood to eat while if you want to retain both your health and your environmental ethics.

That's it. No more Dolphin meat for me.

That takes care of any temptation for me to start eating fish again...

I'm sorry but I don't believe everything thats on the internet. Let's face it if we did then we'd all be driving Hummers because as you know the dust to dust cost is less than the Prius!.
I do only buy local shrimp and it's not farm raised. STP? Tried doing a search on that and alls I can come up with is the oil additive or the Stone Temple Pilots. Just last week there was a report that granite counter tops can give off radon gas. Could be true but then the non profit company that is doing this gets funds from the makers of silestone and cambria counter tops. As a matter of fact the CEO of Cambria is on the board of this organization. It's called Build Green and you'd think that they'd have different things to talk about building a green house but nope just this one thing about granite counter tops.
When I see something on the news or read something on the net or paper I have to ask myself is this possible and let me check for some more facts. I'm not saying none of what this web site said is false but let's check to see if it's crap or true. kevin

http://www.greendaily.com/2008/05/14/enjoy-seafood-dont-read-this/

* "Farmed salmon is fed with a meal made from the hydrolyzed poultry feathers and the ground-up carcasses of chickens culled from avian flu outbreaks.
Sounds like sound use of valuable resources, is it possible to get avian flu from salmon fed this? Recycle, not landfill.

* In 2007, melamine, the toxic additive from China that killed pets throughout North America , was found in the pellets used to feed farmed salmon.
Hardly a good idea to feed something to salmon that might kill them, but apparently it isn't, so it's not likely it will harm me at hugely reduced levels than what the salmon themselves ate.

* Scallops are routinely soaked in STP, a neurotoxicant used in paint strippers and carpet cleaners, so they'll retain water and weigh more at supermarket check-outs.
I don't eat many scallops, but a lot of chemicals are also in paint strippers and carpet cleaners.

* In almost two-thirds of stores in the United States , inspectors have found that salmon sold as high priced "wild-caught" is actually from a farm.
No worries there, I'd never pay premium for "wild-caught" salmon.

* Thanks to global warming, eating grouper, red snapper, and other reef fish is infecting increasing numbers of diners with ciguatera, a potentially fatal disease that causes vomiting, abdominal cramps, and bizarre neurological symptoms.
Need more data, what is causing increased ciguareta from global warming?

* Prawns are routinely rinsed in chlorine to kill pathogens, and processors in countries like India and Thailand use caustic soda and borax to artificially color the prawns they export to Europe and North America .
Chlorine, caustic soda and borax all get rinsed off after exposure, should we stop cleaning anything with these same ingredients? These are very popular chemicals for cleaning everything in food preparation.

* Because juvenile salmon are now stocked in freshwater lakes in South America before being farmed, they're picking up parasites from lake fish. For the first time, eating salmon, in the form of gravlax, salmon sashimi, and ceviche, can give you tapeworms.
I only buy sushi from whole foods, everything there is safe.:rolleyes:

* Because of high levels of mercury, Health Canada recently advised that children under five should eat no more than one can of albacore tuna per week.
Good thing very few kids will eat a can of tuna per week.;)

* Scottish farmed salmon is so laden with PCBs and dioxins that, according to Environmental Protection Agency standards, having a fillet more than once every four months significantly increases your risk of cancer.
The EPA has made the error of assuming that at because a mouse given levels 10,000-100,000 times higher than what humans could ever be exposed to gets cancer there is a linear relation with zero risk only achieved at zero exposure. Reality is that these risks aren't linear and there are no studies that show low levels of PCB or dioxin are harmful.

* Tilapia and tuna are treated with carbon monoxide, also known as 'tasteless smoke,' to prevent them from turning brown. A piece of tuna sprayed with tasteless smoke will remain a marketable cherry red even if it's kept in a car's trunk for several months. "
CO sounds like a powerful agent which can prevent fish from rotting in car trunks, why is that bad?

None of the above shocks or scares me, the same "horrors" are likely true for every food.

I assume there is something bad about "summer sausage" and "pickled herring" but that won't prevent me from gobbling it up.:p

STP? Tried doing a search on that and alls I can come up with is the oil additive or the Stone Temple Pilots.

STP is real. The full name is sodium tripolyphosphate. Its FDA approved and is generally considered safe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_tripolyphosphate

Thanks,
Jonathan

And just wait intil you find out what they treat Beef, Pork and chicken with:)

One thing I've noticed is that it is impossible to find any fish or seafood product that qualifies for any of the organic certifications.

I once spotted a brand of canned tuna at Wild Oats whose claim to fame was being pole caught, giving the impression that the tuna had been caught in the wild. However, after searching the brand on the Net I quickly discovered that it's just a bunch of guys fishing in the holding tanks of the tuna farms. (I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.)

The last time I looked at the "fresh" shrimp at Wild Oats the display had a little placard in front that said, "Product of Vietnam".

Come to think of it, not one of the packaged fish or seafood products at either Trader Joe's nor Wild Oats even tries to apply the meaningless "natural" label.

*sigh* Just as I'm starting to grow my own vegetables maybe I'll have to get my own fish tanks going, too.

Stop, you guys are making me hungry!