Typically fish is caught through traditional fishing methods. Over the past ten or so years, the idea of farming fish (much the same way as you farm eggplant or corn) has become more and more popular. Lately, its becoming harder and harder to get wild caught fish. It seems by law, they have to explicitly tell you whether its farm raised or wild caught. I am sure some farm raised fish is fed garbage, hormones, etc.
What are your thoughts on this? Do you go out of your way to get wild caught fish or does it not really matter to you? What about from a health perspective. Do you think farm raised fish is really unhealthy?
Where I normally shop there is a label stating how the fish was caught. The majority of fish was caught in the ocean and not farmed.
I think I’ll stick with this, although I do not know enough about farm fishing.
We have been eating farm raised shrimp lately because the technology has gotten better. Supposed to be cleaner water now as opposed to polluted fishing grounds. Wegmans has some good ones.
Although I do agree, you have to take what they tell you as true. When there is money involved, I don’t think I can do that. From what I understand, when fish/shrimp are farm raised, they feed them garbage and hormones to make them grow faster. Although they do taste fine when you eat them, you done know what the long term effects will be.
Wild-caught fish. Very little other meat, but grass-fed local beef if we do beef. Local chickens that run outside. Homegrown or local market or store bought organic vegetables and fruits.
In the US, every body of fresh water is polluted, even ocean fish have unsafe Mercury levels, bigger = more Mercury.
Only newly made catfish farms are safe because of cleaner water and diet.
These are the safest and best tasting of any fish you can get anywhere.
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Let me clarify my wild caught fish statement. Mostly from Alaska, mostly salmon. Sardines from Norway. Pretty much everything else I know the grower or know and trust the sellers.
RC hit it on the head. Fake seafood? Ever noticed that scallops around NC are all exactly the same size. Hab a stink a few years back that the scallops were sometimes die cut from manta ray,skate wings. Course that’s still technically seafood.
What are your thoughts on this?
wild caught not wild raised.
might be farmed and released.
Do you go out of your way to get wild caught fish or does it not really matter to you?
no.
all the same to us.
Do you think farm raised fish is really unhealthy?
not any more than farm raised carrots.
If you want to get lied to in print, read the food labels in the grocery store and on the menu at the restaurant.
Fake orange roughy, fake Alaskan king crab, fake tuna, fake scallops, fake anything Organic, fake ocean seafood, fake veal, fake 100% nothing added fruit/vegetable juice, fake aged X amount of months/Y amount of years. Fake everything except the plain, simple, vegan, fundamental basics.
So far, I have not been the victim of fake 100% whole rolled grain oats, or fake tofu, or fake fresh, whole spinach, broccoli, tomatoes, apples or oranges, or fake chia or flax seed, or fake ground and tree nuts.
I don't pay extra for a case of organic tofu, I request a case of inorganic tofu, just to save the money, when the organic labeled anything is exactly the same as the inorganic.
