"Tim Lysyk" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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Svend Tang-Petersen wrote:
What they were concerned about is a chemical called dioxin. However the
latest I heard on the
news last night was that the measured amounts were so small that it made
any kinds of statictics
too inaccurate to be something to be really concerned about. (I think
the
latter statement came from
the FDA).
I found the following article after I replied to your post. It appears
there is some concern over the validity of the study. I may have to
break down and actually read it.
http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2004/01/09/salmon040109
Tim Lysyk
There is a history of farmed salmon defenses, and the repudiation of various
studies of such by industry funded (SURPRISE SURPRISE!) scientists,
goverment bodies, and the like. None are either reasonable or logical.
The damage to local ecologies is quite easily apparent and provable, even to
a complete layman, and the levels of various poisons in the fish is also
relatively easily provable.
Some of these studies in other ( non-farmed) fish, ( especially "fatty" fish
like salmonids and eels), have also revealed high toxicological levels.
There are many places now where the consumption of such fish is proscribed.
This is mainly due to large scale pollution, but there are other reasons,
especially with farmed fish.
Practically the main argument in favour of this type of farming, or against
controlling it more closely, is that this would result in lost jobs.
What some idiotic bureacrat has to say about it is quite immaterial to me.
Most seem blithely unaware of the studies extant, and stick to their guns no
matter what happens.
The extremely rapid decline of other wild fish, ( notably sea trout=
anadromous browns) is also directly traceable to the massively increased
incidence of parasitic organisms in the vicinity of such farms, ( which are
often situated in river mouths, estuaries etc) and the fact that they thus
contaminate whole river systems.
Severe contamination and specification of the gene pool is also a direct
result of such fish escaping. In more than a few rivers, there are
virtually no "wild" salmon left, and the "farmed" variety are simply not
hardy enough to survive the normal rigours of a salmonsīs life, quite apart
from various other severe shortcomings.
TL
MC