Salmon Alert Per CNN

This story from CNN (and another in a long string of reasons to buy KY raised organic tofu fed CSA Salmon ).


(CNN) -- The Food and Drug Administration says Chilean salmon is still safe to consume despite a virus that has killed scores of fish.

"We have no information that there is any harm that can come from eating Chilean salmon," said Ira Allen, a spokesman for the FDA Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition. (In other words we REALLY don't know sh**)

Found only in Chilean farmed salmon, the virus causes infectious anemia in the fish, but it's not harmful to humans.

More than 60 percent of all farmed salmon imported into the United States was from Chile in 2004 but by 2009 it was down to 30.1 percent, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Last month the government of Chile took steps to clean up the way it farms salmon, including moving fishing operations to a different area of the Chilean coast. (In other words we've dicked up this section of the coast so bad that we HAVE to move somewhere else)

But the virus, which appeared at least two years ago, persisted....

http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/02/18/sa ... tml?hpt=T2

Thanks for the editorial, I mean , information.

[quote="Steve P"]This story from CNN (and another in a long string of reasons to buy KY raised organic tofu fed CSA Salmon ).

Steve -

Who is raising this salmon and do you have any contact info for them?

I'm thinking Steve was making a funny.

Hmmmm . . . I remember reading recently that "Atlantic salmon" was 100% farmed, but "Pacific salmon" was mainly wild caught. Unless I forget my geography (quite likely at my advanced age) isn't Chile on the Pacific???

I have a great smoked salmon recipe . . . wonder if it will work with that good ole Kentucky organic tofu . . . my only question is how to keep the tofu from falling thru the grates on the grill . . .

Off Topic...Steve, I LOVE your avatar. Is that Ricky from TPB?

We're huge fans and own all the DVD's:)

This story from CNN (and another in a long string of reasons to buy KY raised organic tofu fed CSA Salmon ).

http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/02/18/sa ... tml?hpt=T2

I'm thinking Steve was making a funny.

Justin -

I never really have mastered the smiley face thing, but sounds like a business opportunity to me. Afterall, why not?; if the fish will eat tofu and no, I have no idea if they will or not. No different in concept than grass fed or kobe beef, free range fowl, etc..

Off Topic...Steve, I LOVE your avatar. Is that Ricky from TPB?

We're huge fans and own all the DVD's:)

Yep, that be the Rickmiester. TPBs ROCK. I wanna be Julian when I grow up...and if we get a puppy we're gonna name him "Bubbles".

Here's a link for people who aren't familiar with the Trailer Park Boys (warning, offensive language)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR3QHoqfhX8

Hahah, some friends started lending us the Trailer Park Boys dvds last year.... and after watching the first episode I was done. I just didn't get it. I couldn't get past the filmed-on-Beta look, the cheesy acting, etc. My wife, on the otherhand said she was gonna watch a little more because we didn't have anything to do that day anyway, so I stayed with it through another episode. And by the end of the second episode I was on board completely. I still can't believe how my opinion changed so completely from one end of the spectrum to the other. TPB are amazing.