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SYNTHETIC astaxanthin.
Yes yes, very spooky sounding. Do you know how they make it? By farming the same damn algae that salmon eat.
People get their panties in a bunch about farmed versus wild salmon. It's the same damn thing. Eat what you can afford.
Nah it can also be fully synthetic, but it's the same thing, it's just preferred carotenoid for them
That's true, but I really I'm reluctant to say that because people are kind of dumb. It's like the ones that hear there's aluminum in your vaccines. Like yeah, but it's bound to other atoms and not at all aluminum anymore.
Stupid people don't get nuance.
I thought the problem was damage to the environment rather than any health risks for eating it.
Although I think most of those problems could be solved and it is just cheaper not to bother.
Would you believe those sick bastards raise the salmon IN dihydrogen monoxide?
I hear that almost 100% of people who ingest dihydrogen monoxide have DIED. and did you know it's the main ingredient in LYSOL? and they want our CHILDREN to drink more of it.
Is the real take away but I can pretty much always taste the difference between farmed and caught fish because their diet and exercise isn't the same. And no, I'm not talking about the freshness quality, that's just universally ass in the USA because we import fish from across the globe.
But the global demand for seafood is so damn high that I'd rather put up with farmed fish than nuking the entire ocean.
My main issue is diet source and water filtration. (most) Fish evolved to basically not spend energy mitigating toxins and other heavy metals in their bodies because they're used to living in a constant stream of water, hence why they generate ammonia instead of urea, because the sheer volume of water will dillute it away.
Both wild and farmed fish are highly susceptible to polluted food and water, which we really do not take enough care of these days lol.
Farmed fish is still fuckin awful for you compared to wild fish
Why
diseases overcome with antibiotics pumped in
Plus high levels of pollutants like dioxins and pcbs
They trying to make robot fish?
polychlorinated biphenyls
And this affects people..... How?
if you eat an animal riddled with antibiotics, your own body's effectiveness against said antibiotics (which are now ambient in your bloodstream) drops, requiring you to seek far stronger antibiotics the next time you have an actual bacterial infection, thus accelerating an arms race between us and super bacteria
High level, sure. But fish antibiotics are not human antibiotics. They're not even mammal antibiotics. They target different things.
Was there a study done or something?
Random tangent: tetracycline, amoxicillin, ciprofloxacin, cephalexin and penicillin are for both fishes and humans
Yes, through drug-resistant bacteria developed on the animals that we come in contact with via undercooked meat or improper cleaning in the kitchen
Okay yeah, those are the ones I'm familiar with. That's all livestock studies. I haven't seen one about fish.
We could possibly extrapolate from there, but the biome of the human body is so vastly different than sea creatures that it may not apply.
Could you err on the side of caution? Sure. But if you're not wealthy and have to choose between farmed protein sources or no protein sources? Eat what you can afford. And don't fear monger people to the point where they make poor health choices due to their budget.