I've been eating a lot of farm-raised fish lately (mostly Salmon), but I've recently heard it may be harmful to your health (cancer). I've looked online and found a few articles, and they seem to confirm this, but I have no idea what is legit and what's not, or what to really be concerned about. Soooo, I thought I'd come here. Anyone have any good information on this topic? Anyone not eat farm-raised fish due to health concerns?
This is interesting because I eat lots of salmon (supposedly it is heart healthy). My mom told me that farm-raised fish can have too much mercury. Well I don't eat it as much since she told me that. However, I asked the seafood at H-E-B about it and he says that theirs isn't farm-raised. Of course no way to confirm....
Yea...I've heard that farm-raised fish also have high levels of Mercury so the assumption that farm-raised is better than wild fish is wrong. I've seen people recommend only consuming fish once per week. No fish is immune to having some level of Mercury. I assume fish can be contaminated with all kinds of chemicals, including drugs, which could cause cancer. So, fish is good for you in that it provides omega-3 fatty acids but not good for you because of polluted planet Earth. I personally don't eat much fish at all because of the negatives. I'm not so much worried about the Mercury as I'm not a pregnant woman but there are other chemicals as well. I would rather take omega-3 fatty acid pills to get the benefits although the absorption is probably not as good as from a food source. Of course, I'm not on a health kick at the moment so none of it really concerns me. Fish is bad...mmmkay!
I would go ahead and eat the fish, just not too often. Larger fish tend to have more mercury but Salmon isn't as bad as tuna or shark. All fish are susceptible to polution concerns, but what isn't?
Yes...if you eat 100 pounds of it per sitting and daily for 2 weeks straight. This is one of those topics where, unless your heavily dosing yourself with fish, then I wouldn't worry about it. It's kind of like the saccharine/soda debate. Saccharine causes cancer if you drink 20,000 sodas within a month to match the level they injected the mouse with during the cancer-causing tests. BLAH~!
the concern with farmed fish is the hormones and vitamines that are pumped into them as they grow them in pens. The companies that farm fish say these are perfectly safe. I buy wild fish.
