Organic farmed salmon a hoax, don't buy in

[Aaltrude]

Sarah King
May 14, 2012

Organowashing. Is that word? Well, we're going to be introduced to this phenomenon when "organic" farmed salmon enters the Canadian market. Yes friends, the farmed salmon saga continues and this time our protagonist will be painted green with an O stamped on its back.
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No wonder numerous Canadian organic (land) farmers, food safety groups and conservation orgs are pissed off at last week's decision by the Canadian General Standards Board to allow farmed salmon to carry an organic stamp; everything we've come to expect from organic products and all the work our organic farmers have put in to meet the more rigorous standards, is about to be undermined.

Read more: http://www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/Blog/organic-farmed-salmon-a-hoax-dont-buy-in/blog/40430/#.T7QL_dLJSqU.facebook

[Mr. Wizard]

This is truly shameful. The words "organic" and "farmed" should never be used together. IMHO, farmed raised anything is bad for you, much less organic.

[Reverend Alan]

When I first moved here in 1972 I had an above the ground swimming pool and we turned it into a pond and raised our own fish. We would go to a local river and catch Blue Gill and Perch and catfish, and let them get to gigantic size before harvesting them out of the "pond". Why could not the same thing be done with salmon? I know there is the thing with the salt water and traveling up stream to spawn, but these would all be harvested before needing to go upstread to spawn. And what about shrimp? Couldn't one get a pool large enough to raise one's own shrimp? I always thought it would be a nice thing to trade someone a dozen shrimp for a dozen eggs or whatever.

[Julieanne]

For anyone prepared to outlay the initial investment, there is a great way of growing vegetables and fish called aquaponics, which is a self-sustaining (?) system. The fish 'fertilise' the water, which then goes on to the vegetable beds. I can't remember how the fish are fed, but I'll try and find a link. It's a fairly delicate balance - I know a couple of people who have an aquaponics setup.

http://www.aquaponics.com.au/