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NESA Never eat salmon from the Atlantic. It’s mostly farm raised and often dyed pink.

• alexchamberlain 2y ago
  Are you applying American practices to a European context?
  • pipeline_peak 2y ago
    If you mean American as in both continents then yes, you are right about dying fish because Peru does it as well. I still think any farm raised fish should be avoided. From what I've seen, it looks like it's pretty common in Europe as well. https://faunalytics.org/farmed-atlantic-salmon-a-life-not-worth-living/#:~:text=meeting%20welfare%20criteria.-,Salmon%20are%20the%20most%20farmed%20fish%20in%20Europe,-and%20are%20among https://faunalytics.org/farmed-atlantic-salmon-a-life-not-wo...
• rimunroe 2y ago
  I’m not an expert so maybe someone else can chime in if I’m wrong, but: farmed salmon is not dyed pink. Their feed is supplemented with carotenoids like astaxanthin. These are substances they get in their diet naturally in the wild, is necessary for their health, and is also responsible for the pink color. This is the same class of chemicals which gives flamingos their distinctive pink colors. Flamingos, like wild salmon, eat algae and small crustaceans, both of which contain a lot of carotenoids. Eating a lot of carotenoids can give humans (especially light skinned ones) carotenosis, which is a distinct orange or yellow tint of the skin. You have to eat quite a bit to get it though.
• cherryteastain 2y ago
  I greatly prefer the texture of Atlantic salmon to Pacific varieties like sockeye though.