Fish
has always been touted as a healthy food, but when it comes to today’s farmed
salmon, experts say that description couldn’t be further from the truth.
During
the making of the documentary, “Fillet-Oh-Fish” by director Nicolas Daniels, an
investigation among the Norwegian fjords that contain salmon farms found a
layer of waste about 15 meters high, consisting of bacteria, drugs, and
pesticides. And with the sea farms being situated in open water, it’s
impossible to contain the pollution.
According
to Dr. Joseph Mercola, “Today’s fisheries are faced with a range of severe
problems, from overfishing to chemical pollution and genetic mutation from
toxic exposures.”
Farmed
salmon has been proven to be five times more toxic than any other food product
tested. In fact, Norwegian environmental activist Kurt Oddekalv claims that
today’s farmed salmon is one of the most toxic foods in the world, adding that
the farming of salmon is “a disaster both for the environment and for human
health.”
“I
do not recommend pregnant women, children or young people eat farmed salmon. It
is uncertain in both the amount of toxins salmon contain, and how these drugs
affect children, adolescents, and pregnant women,” said Dr. Anne-Lise Birch
Monsen, a biologist at the University of Bergen in Norway.
She
adds that the contaminants detected in farmed salmon have a negative effect on
brain development, are associated with autism, and that they affect other organ
systems in the body’s immune system and metabolism.
Additionally,
according to Living Traditionally, eating more than one meal of farm-raised
salmon in a month can increase your risk of developing cancer in the future due
to the cancer-causing chemicals and high levels of dioxins it contains. It’s
also said to provide your body with higher levels of inflammation which leads
to many diseases including cancer, diabetes, arthritis, coronary artery
disease, and Alzheimer’s.
Now,
more than ever, it’s incredibly important to not only be mindful of what we
eat, but to know where exactly it comes from and what it contains. Our health —
and lives — depend on it.
Source : goodfullness.net