Chile’s salmon farms may use more antibiotics than any other meat industry

Re:Chile’s salmon farms may use more antibiotics than any ot... by belorn on Sunday January 14, 2018 @06:41PM (#16147273)

Since this article talk about fish farms there is very obvious solution and that is eat wild caught fish, preferable from places where there is either a overpopulation or where there are invasive species. Plenty of such meat in the world where eating it would have a net-positive on the environment.

Know one lake where the price of the overpopulated fish species in it is so low that just transporting it to a cat food factory would be a loosing deal.

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Re:Chile’s salmon farms may use more antibiotics than any ot... by DrScump on Sunday January 14, 2018 @06:59PM (#16147366)

  eat wild caught fish

But how does the consumer know the true origin of a product?

"Wild-caught" claims are only as reliable as the least honest entity in the supply chain.

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Re:Chile’s salmon farms may use more antibiotics than any ot... by belorn on Sunday January 14, 2018 @07:11PM (#16147431)

Anything written on the product is liable to supply chain fraud. How do a customer know that the virgin olive oil is not mixed with lard? No food is safe from product fraud.

Has fish a higher risk compared to other products? To my knowledge the food product with highest fraud rate is oil. After that things like honey, and further down we have beef. I have never heard of report in regard to fish, but feel free to point me to such reports.

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Re:Chile’s salmon farms may use more antibiotics than any ot... by toomanybeersies on Monday January 15, 2018 @02:13AM (#16149077)

This is why I only by olive oil from Australia or New Zealand. It's local to me, and organised crime has less of a hand in it as far as I'm aware.

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Re:Chile’s salmon farms may use more antibiotics than any ot... by aaronbrethorst on Sunday January 14, 2018 @08:01PM (#16147637)

That's what a government is supposed to be doing: laws, regulations, and the ability to enforce them.

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Re:Chile’s salmon farms may use more antibiotics than any ot... by greglindahl on Sunday January 14, 2018 @08:37PM (#16147807)

Yeah, and if you look at newspaper articles about wild fish actually being farmed, the government seems to be doing a terrible job about that in particular.

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Re:Chile’s salmon farms may use more antibiotics than any ot... by aaronbrethorst on Sunday January 14, 2018 @10:26PM (#16148282)

I live in Seattle, and couldn't agree more! I think it's reprehensible that there hasn't been more done by our current Congress, the Executive branch, and the Washington state legislature to prevent such disastrous accidents as the recent release of Atlantic salmon around Puget Sound.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/puget-sou...

I'm glad to see that parts of the government, specifically one of our US Senators, Maria Cantwell, and some folks in Washington state's legislature, like Kevin Ranker from Orcas Island, are doing the right thing on this issue. Cantwell, being in the minority party in the Senate, can't do much more than angrily issue press releases, and Ranker, being in the majority party in the Washington state Senate, is doing as much as he can—i.e. introduce legislation.

https://www.facebook.com/senatorcantwell/posts/1994659154144...

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/puget-sou...

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Re:Chile’s salmon farms may use more antibiotics than any ot... by DrScump on Sunday January 14, 2018 @09:45PM (#16148117)

But there can be multiple governments involved.

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Re:Chile’s salmon farms may use more antibiotics than any ot... by Broken_Hippo on Monday January 15, 2018 @04:28AM (#16149494)

So? The responsibility is on the government where the product is being sold. If they can't verify the origins, they can disallow that sell. I don't see the issue here other than it makes it complicated... which it would be anyway.

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Re:Chile’s salmon farms may use more antibiotics than any ot... by jdavis703 on Sunday January 14, 2018 @07:01PM (#16147382)

Perhaps because they caught it themselves? If I had the time and land I’d go fishing and hunting. But since I don’t I just restrict myself to a vegetarian diet.

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Re:Chile’s salmon farms may use more antibiotics than any ot... by arve0 on Sunday January 14, 2018 @07:10PM (#16147427)

You may know by eating fish that are not possible to farm, like cod.

Edit: Apparently, cod may be farmed (1), though I think the idea still stands.

1: https://thefishsite.com/articles/cultured-aquatic-species-at...

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Re:Chile’s salmon farms may use more antibiotics than any ot... by dagw on Monday January 15, 2018 @09:27AM (#16150686)

eat wild caught fish

That can have it's own (different) set of problems if the fish comes from pollute waters.

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