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> according to research by DSM, a company that supplies pigmenting compounds to the salmon feed industry Seriously? Alternatively, if we stopped dyeing fish,
by kstrauser 2y ago
> according to research by DSM, a company that supplies pigmenting compounds to the salmon feed industry
Seriously?
Alternatively, if we stopped dyeing fish, a year later people will have totally recalibrated what they think fresh, healthy fish looks like.
- canucker2016 2y agoOnly for farmed salmon. Wild salmon eat krill and other smaller organisms, many of which provide the components to turn the salmon meat a shade of pink. Farmed salmon don't get the same components in their feed, so their meat isn't the same colour. So the farmers add some of those components into the salmon feed, et voila - pink salmon meat. see https://www.dal.ca/news/2023/03/21/farmed-salmon-colour-healthy-antioxidant.html https://www.dal.ca/news/2023/03/21/farmed-salmon-colour-heal...
- idunnoman1222 2y agoWe feed chickens, Merigold flowers to make their yolks darker