THE TROUBLE WITH SALMON - Ironically, the healthiest choice on the menu may, in the long run, be the most serious danger to your health and to the planet. Here is the unbelievable truth about salmon.

Taras Grescoe
May, 2009
Best Life

Excerpt "I bring tourists from around the world out here all the time," says Mullin, as he shakes his head. "They're all shocked to see these salmon farms. They think that because this is a biosphere reserve it is protected from industrial activity, but it isn't." Mullin tells me that when the sun sets, the salmon farmers switch on powerful underwater floodlights. The lights attract herring and juvenile wild Pacific salmon, providing a free meal for the captive Atlantic salmon, and Clayoquot Sound blazes with the kind of artificial sodium glare usually associated with a Wal-Mart parking lot. "

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