Eat Farmed Salmon, Get PCBs Free!
Thatís cancer-causing PCBs, and theyíre in a whole lot of farmed salmon, according to this report from the non-profit Environmental Working Group.
Farmed salmon are often fed contaminated fish food, plus theyíre fattened up, which means they retain more PCBs than those wild-swimming waif salmon. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports that some stores are taking this Salmon plus PCBs deal seriously:
Wild Oats, a 100-store natural and organic supermarket chain, based in Boulder, Colo., is not waiting for the FDA. Starting next week, it will sell farmed organic salmon from the west coast of Ireland, which it says tests as low for PCBs as wild salmon because the company uses feed made of fish taken from clean waters within a 30-mile radius of its farm.Whole Foods Market, a 145-store natural and organic foods supermarket with stores in the Seattle area, is also looking for farmed salmon with lower levels of PCBs.
(via Plastic.com)