Farm Raised Salmon EXPOSED...what you're actually eating.

Did you know that salmon is the number one selling fish in the United States and many other places around the world? Its bright pink color stands out in a sea of white or gray fish, and consumers are willing to pay more for it. But what should you be looking for when you’re buying it, and how do you know if you’re getting your money’s worth?
In this episode of Eat This, Not That! I’ll take you on a journey into the world of salmon. As a fish lover, you might be interested in incorporating it into your diet for its omega-3 and anti-inflammatory benefits, but the industry can be deceptive when it comes to the color, freshness, and nutrient value of fish.
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[@tapuit1]

Shocking how the food industry seems to corrupt everything. Industrial food production is killing us (slowly)

[@amishpat5201]

You must preserve the small family farm. Legislation must protect them. The farmers protect us.

[@webb-cast1030]

Why does everyone say salmon is pink? It's much closer to orange than pink.

[@lisar129]

Great informative video! Thank you Dr Livingood❤️

[@kennethvenezia4400]

I have stopped eating fish years ago. SAD, but other than sardines, I'm never coming back

[@edschulhof6303]

Thank you for this video. The best explanation of the difference between wild and farmed I have seen. I don't buy any farm raised fish.

[@monkeycat48]

As someone who was born in Alaska raised in Washington state I’ll say this farm fed salmon is disgusting I mean really disgusting. There’s nothing I can literally say that would literally defend what it really is or how tasty it is. I’ve tried it and ever since then I’ve always stuck with the wild fresh, caught salmon or any fresh wild caught fish. Having something like that that’s literally from a facility. Fed tablets is just disgusting.

[@murphyy277]

I made some farm raised atlantic salmon yesterday tasted great. I agree wild caught salmon is best for you.

[@cincin4515]

Literally. 😂😂😂

[@Mmurrieta]

I've never been more bored in my life I apologize to anyone that takes offense to this even though I'm just saying that to sugarcoat things I guess. LOL blah blah blah blah get to the point man I think I enjoyed a 2-minute short video from JRE Joe Rogan Experience listen to this 7 Minute rant peace out I'll never be back

[@tahjjones6081]

@@murphyy277 what if i wanted to start my own farm? would that be okay or would wild still be better?

[@lobrent1473]

Yes the wild might “taste” be better, and what’s your thought of as human competing the food source against their natural predators tho? Is it even sustainable to keep eating wild but not farmed fish?? And fish digestive pathways are also different to humans too, so things maybe not so good to human might actually be fine with fish too… I just personally support farm raised animals/food more in general

[@yasminkhan3762]

Thank you Doctor 👍👍

[@louisecoulter8756]

Great video, research, and info as usual...thank you! But I wanted to let you know that you misspoke at the 6:27 mark by saying, "So point being, look for FARM raised salmon..." when you meant WILD caught. The text in the video was correct, it was just a verbal slip. I love following you, Doc, and the work you put into your videos is very much appreciated. ❤

[@nudayentertainmentandinspi9929]

Yeah a slight verbal slip but he's still the maaan!! Love this guy...

[@Myfootonyourneck1]

Had to hit replay 6 times to make sure I heard that correctly

[@lisah6076]

I stopped buying farm raised many years ago. Then I had to get use to wild sockeye. Didn't take long. I get it from Wholefoods and another store. I also ordered some from Alaska. Wild Alaskan Salmon and Seafood. Expensive and I recently saw a place online in Seattle.

[@MrSCOTTtheSCOT]

Pick your pink colour from a colour chart. mmmmmn

[@peterhamlet1415]

Thank you for your work and research. A steward of man and beast.

[@DrLivingood]

Thank you for being here with us! -LGD Team

[@xrsuperduper7660]

Nice info. No bias 😎👍

[@caroleanne8529]

I feel fortunate that there is a young couple in a nearby town (Idaho) that has their own fishing vessel that they take to Alaska every summer. They basically have a processing plant on board where they flash freeze their catch and sell to people in our area (Fairweather Fish Co.). We have become very spoiled by their coho salmon, cod and spot prawns. I do not know if they ship to other parts of the country.

[@cherylburrell9558]

Thank you

[@tahjjones6081]

would it be okay to start your own farm?

[@ian2372]

My kroger only offers farm raised color added salmon. A year ago they had wild caught atlantic salmon. Their reasoning was climate change and sustainability. The only fresh and wild option they offer now is frozen wild caught at 150% the cost.

[@bread_n_butter8614]

What about GGN labeled farmed salmon?

[@anicolau2119]

Pink?? Its orange

[@flyerelite5153]

I noticed a lot of people are color blind when it comes to salmon

[@NoName-ds5uq]

Here in Tasmania we have a big Atlantic Salmon farming industry. This industry also has an environmental effect from those farms, like pollution threatening endangered ancient species(Maugean Skate for example due to oxygen level drops in Macquarie Harbour). Farmed salmon just seem like any other processed food.

[@Realitvluvr]

I'm so disappointed. Where I live the fresh fish Salmon being my favorite, even our better quality stores all sell Atlantic Salmon. It even tastes bland too. I haven't seen any wild caught in any store.😔

[@maryfolks9368]

Neither have I. I wonder if eating farm raised is better than no salmon at all?

[@Realitvluvr]

@@maryfolks9368 It's actually not better because of the additives and artificial coloring. It's not the best thing for our bodies. Been trying to eat healthier to preserve what little kidney function I have left. Learning this does not help.

[@DejiiJones_]

@@Realitvluvr Try can wild caught salmon

[@Realitvluvr]

@@DejiiJones_ I’ve since relocated to another state so hopefully I’ll have better luck finding it here now, thanks 👍🏾☺️

[@donnaadams7805]

We always order from wild Alaskan online. Saves us money too! Since local caught wild seafood here is about $24 per pound! 🤦‍♀️

[@DanielJohnson-ec8rk]

Where from? I live in Kentucky so seafood selection is terrible

[@walnoemispoyt5604]

From purely just the stand point of nutrients I can concede that you are correct but what I am interested in is whether if you can eat the wild caught fish raw and this for me is where the video fails. Nutrition grade is not the same thing as sushi grade and so yeah I'm still going to buy the farmed fish because it satisfies the sushi grade criteria. I am willing to be convinced if you can show that there does exist a wild caught fish who maintains the nutrients while fulfilling the sushi grade.

[@naomi8097]

My Walmart “wild caught” salmon says in small print it’s sourced from a fishery. What does that mean?

[@DrLivingood]

We would recommend contacting Walmart and asking them to explain their labeling. -LGD Team

[@keithlb1]

You can get plenty of omega 3’s from plant food. Salmon might have many health benefits but hazards also.

[@MD-jf9cu]

You guys don't bother eating farmed pigs, beef, chicken, sheep, but worried about farmed fish...not getting that.

[@DrLivingood]

For beef and lamb, we recommend all-natural with the best being 100% grass-fed and organic. For chicken, we recommend all-natural with the best being organic and pasture raised. We recommend pork in moderation, ideally all-natural, and the best is organic. For fish, we recommend wild caught as farm-raised fish has a higher fat content and more toxins. - LGD Team

[@ResidualSelfImage]

the difference between wild caught and farm raised Atlantic Salmon in the MD VA DC area is from 2 to 6 dollars more per pound. Because of the price difference, the supermarkets sell less of the wild caught and carry less wild caught than farmed raised. The health impact of Omega 3 can vary depending on the dietary intake of Omega 6 which mitigates the positive effects of Omega 3 dietary intake.. The less dietary Omega 3 intake the less Omega 3 intake is needed for the same positive health benefits.

[@WayneMacLean-lj8lb]

First time I caught a rainbow trout not a salmon. The meat was so orange when I had lived in another state and caught a rainbow trout the meat was gray probably because it was raised at a fish hatchery's being feed those fish food pellets.

[@katrinatse5638]

ooop he said look for farm raised to eat...

[@yuliaantonenkovolkovamd552]

Where I live there is NO wild caught salmon. What us better: eating farm caught 1-2 times a week or not eating salmon at all?

[@DrLivingood]

We'd recommend avoiding farm-raised. -LGD Team

[@-P-C-]

So what does the grocery store carry these products if they're bad for you?

[@SHARPxOix69]

💲💲💲

[@DanielJohnson-ec8rk]

What a naive comment

[@kaerligheden]

You sound so innocent... People will do anything to gain money, even sell crap if they can...

[@alexandrelavallee5627]

How to buy good salmon then?

[@DrLivingood]

We recommend wild-caught salmon. -LGD Team

[@MrGheller]

Which one is the healthiest wild caught salmon to eat here in the USA? WholeFoods sells one called wild caught king salmon. And what about the *metals* in salmon???

[@DrLivingood]

We recommend researching and reading the labels for the best one:) -LGD Team

[@agentp6621]

I keep reading about higher concentrations of PCBs in farm raised fish. I’ve studied (as a hobby) environmental contamination. PCBs were used most commonly in power transformers and is in the process of being phased out if it isn’t already in the U.S. It was used in quite a few other industrial applications. I was stationed at Ft. Eustis, VA with the Army for 7 months. There was a lake contaminated with PCBs due to neglected storage of transformers that leaked and contaminated the lake. Last I knew it was still an issue. The fish grew two heads (literally). So my question is. Why are farm raised fish more likely to have higher PCB content than wild caught? Because I’m choosing not to eat local fish because of ag runoff in my area. State of Kansas has put out not to eat too much fish from our manmade lakes or rivers because of contamination. So I’m looking for a healthy choice for fish. Last I knew, tuna is overfished and isn’t easily harvested in farms for sustainability. Salmon is appealing because it can be farmed to help offset overfishing. I’ve read that tilapia is a dirty fish that has a lot of parasites. I’ve considered starting my own aquaponics but I’m not sure how do it and do it in a way that will maximize the health of the fish.

[@DrLivingood]

For fish, we recommend finding an option that is wild-caught. Farm-raised salmon have a higher fat content and more toxins that come from their diet. Here is a helpful article: drlivingood.pulse.ly/oecy71li48 🙂 - LGD Team

[@agentp6621]

Thank you

[@zilvoxidgod]

farm raised consistently tastes better and higher in fat is desirable to any cook, we breed for this for a reason

[@meredithbenjamin6057]

I don't like salmon. I like some fish, like cod, and I get crabmeat. I can't afford much so I don't eat much meat. Just occasional sales.

[@ssjlkrillin]

"You're not what you eat, but what you eat ate". Since many meat sources we consume are herbivores (not necessarily fish), why not just eat the plants and cut out the middleman?

[@maryfolks9368]

Question, we never see wild salmon anywhere in any towns around us. So is eating farm raised salmon better than no salmon at all?

[@donnaadams7805]

I order from Wild Alaskan online. They ship fish fresh frozen to your door.

[@maryfolks9368]

@@donnaadams7805 Really? Thank you for sharing that. God Bless you and Happy Easter 😊

[@kaerligheden]

It's better to not eat at all then eat something that's bad for your health...

[@maryfolks9368]

@@kaerligheden I agree and since my comment 10 months ago I've done amazing on OMAD. So I understand completely the no eating thing lol. Lot's of people are still against Intermittent Fasting but I've found it so helpful.

[@kaerligheden]

@@maryfolks9368 What's OMAD? And I've done interimitent fasting too, it's very good for health, where I live people don't agree either, they eat 5 times /day... and they think it's the best...

[@jesusace83]

its the same farm raised meat you get from mc Donald's lol

[@trevx3680]

Farmed salmon can be done on land which dramatically reduced the environmental and health effects. Check out this business in Tasmania, Australia: "41° South Tasmania and Georgie's Cafe". These are done in large tanks that are linked to a nearby set of semi-wild ponds for filtering. In my opinion this method is better than both the wild caught and river/ocean farmed.

[@user-km2dg2hv9y]

See the videos below : - Farmed Norwegian Salmon World’s Most Toxic Food - Salmon Confidential, Documentary About Salmon Farms in Canada & Diseased Salmon

[@jeffsohogm]

My son loves farm raised over wild because the wild has to much mercury.

[@Pegasus4213]

While fish farms may be distorting the value of what we eat, they are not the only ones prepared to distort nature for convenience and so-called efficiency. The way this video is produced also does something similar and distorts natural human language and reality with editing techniques. Humans do this all the time.

[@bittenheroes]

Wait a minite, at 6:27 did you say to look for farm-raised salmon "way better nutrient content, true colouring, true antioxidants, way less fattiness, way less chemicals..." 😳

[@DrLivingood]

There's a caption that he meant to say Wild caught. 😊 Tongue ties get the best of us all! -LGD Team

[@rickyelvis3215]

Look for farm raised salmon.. and avoid like the plague!

[@serhiy2020]

yeah but if we all ate wild salmon we'd probably not have enough

[@jeffsohogm]

Your right.

[@Peter-xo6bn]

Well said , the farming industry is putting out their own videos trying to rebuke these claims however your video is the truth all tested in labs. Added note. Never eat anything from china or asia especially seafood. Avoid dog food from outside the U.S.

[@fredfells209]

I heard that Alaskan Salmon have tape worms

[@jeanpaultongeren125]

if the salmon is heated the worms die

[@DanielJohnson-ec8rk]

Not tapeworm but they absolutely contain parasites. If you are going to use for sushi you have to freeze for a minimum 7 days. If cooking, the parasites will be killed and safe to eat

[@zazsereb1499]

Every fish on planet earth has worms, you should see lingcod... it's a natural thing, you have worms inside you too lol

[@maksphoto78]

It's not that bad. And no everybody can afford wilde-caught salmon.

[@robertlopez9347]

Aldi has frozen wild caught pink salmon for $6.99 a pound..

[@kaerligheden]

Stop lying yourself....

[@maksphoto78]

@@kaerligheden money (and supply and demand) speak louder than myself.

[@kaerligheden]

@@maksphoto78 everybody has his priorities, and I can see quality food is not yours...

[@annalane5430]

It is that bad! If you can’t afford wild caught then don’t buy any salmon. I don’t.Instead I take the highest quality fish oil capsules (Nordic Naturals).

[@susanfarley1332]

I dont like most fish anyway, and i have never liked salmon. I have heard that farm raised salmon or any wild fish from the waters around Scandinavia are not safe since those waters are polluted with chemicals dumped in the sea. And food made to feed the farm raised salmon is made using ingredients the makers are told to use. One of the ingredients is not safe.

[@cgfreeandeasy]

The Problem with such suggestions is, that we are 8 billion humans on earth and when all wanted to eat wild fish, ...we all know, that ther is a shortage of fish in the oceans anyway.....and not even all humans eat fish. So.... your suggestion, better only eat wild fish (not farmed fish) do not last long... and is not targetting the problem. You should criticize the main problem: that the farmed fish is fed with bad food. Sometimes even toxic at all. And that farmed fish also is highly medicated, because wild fish and farming (with bad food) doesn´t fit together. And also the enviormental consequences of big fish-farms are bad as fxyz There are two main targets out of all usual suggestions. One: We need more fish, so we need Fishfarming (so far it seems), but in a much better strategy (without toxins and strange ingrediens and lesser enviormental damage). Two: we need to make the oceans a better, cleaner (chemical and physical resulting in biological ideal) biotope. Idealy that resulted in a higher animal/life-population, so that there is more capacity to take out food for humans. The main target is, the growing-rate of all sorts of plants and animals in the ocean to drastical increase, so that the biotope is highly vital and a uge renewal-rate can/will happend. But with the actual pollution of the oceans that cannot work. We put our waste-water, our industry-waste and much more (chemicals out of washing-substances and cosmetics and much more) into rivers and oceans, that these biotopes cannot flourish anymore, as they could. At most the chemnical portions of our industry-culture are partly very bad. Hormonal active substances are bad for life... and its reproduction-capability. Chemical toxins, that seems to be not (so much) toxic for humans (what only seems so), can be very toxic for some animals and hole biotopes). Overall, we destroy our biggest biotopes by shitting in Rivers and oceans and pollut the rivers and oceans full of toxic substances. And... also the problem of nuclear waste. Its not the radiation, that is the problem, its the form, inwhat nuclear elements are existant: in single atoms (Ions), that are easy integratable in metabolizing organisms (what actualy do all organisms: metabolizing to life and grow) and can easily manipulate / damage their methabolism and nervesystem. Those element-forms are set free in all burning-processes (because all plants, fossil-fuels and energy-recources contain some of such isotopes in single atomar form). Not even spoken abput nuclear accidents...or intentionaly / willingly contamination because of manipulation of humans mind/brains and organism (to bring them in dependence of modern civilisational institutions, like medical service and even food- So, no good suggestion. Only smart alecking (do no tknow the right translation of "Klugscheisserei" or "Besserwisserei"....). The theory and pretendings free market economy of modern capitalism knew that problem, that the market cannot solve all that problems...only the problem with profit-making and economic groth. No one of the shareholder think about, how bad the actual product can be for consumer, its simpley only relevant, what is in it for profit. Ther is no sustainability in the actual economy, because its build to exploit and distroy the enviorment, out of what they make profit.

[@omarhalsey3777]

I don't think a nice farm raised salmon 2 or 3 times a month is gonna hurt you. Moderation and varied diet is key.

[@davidrogemoser9147]

OK without farmed Salmon, the price will be $50 per pound or higher. This doesn't bother me because I don't care much for Salmon anyway. Wild Salmon will be food for the rich and famous. The world cannot be feed through wild fish, unless you all start eating a lot of carp. They grow great in the wild

[@Frank00064]

Is poisonous.

[@up8yrs]

Scroll down in the video to read ingredients - gag a maggot

[@yoyoyiggityyo16]

Wouldn't organic farm raised be better than wild caught?

[@DrLivingood]

Wild caught is best. 😊 -LGD Team

[@annalane5430]

At 6.26, he made a huge blunder and said buy farm raised! He should have edited that out! The whole point of this video is to explain to NOT buy farm raised!!!!!

[@franhigson5403]

I replayed it because I was like What??? did he just say eat farm raised??

[@euclid2994]

Does not have a narrative on the comparative environmental damage but only on human food value. The issue is complex as wild caught salmon at the scale of current consumption will risk extinction of the wild population.

[@nadantagaming2276]

I don't know what I'm eating I just eat it.

[@ZanesFacebook]

Eh, Farm tastes so much better though

[@KCnelsonKC]

If you trust what I'm talking about and you give kids a chance to prove themselves with the right diet, you will see that the mechanism of society will demote that Witch.

[@stretchjohnson752]

Farm is still better than beef pork

[@annalane5430]

Nowhere near as good as grass-fed beef.

[@bradyshea5403]

We're gonna see food industry this video is bullshit lol European raised salmon is absolutely fine for you. Good Eating while caught salmon when the pacific Is populations start To dwindle deu to supply and demand Wild or farmed, you need to know where your fish Is coming from Most of your pollutants are coming from "wild" bodies of water. You need to have traceability when it comes to seafood. There are tons of farms that are unregulated and produce horrible quality fish. General rule is organic Salmon and anything raised by the european union Extremely healthy for you. You need to vet any farm the u.s Wegmans has a good partnered farm in u s called superior farms out of the great lakes. If there are a lot of other farms in the country that are unregulated and not good Asian south american farms that are Not associated with the European Union.. Are the ones you should avoid. People have this idea that wild caught fish is pristine and natural. Mankind has made the wild not so natural anymore Unregulated waste And heavy metals, plague, rivers, bays and oceans. You end up spending more money on a product than an industry wants you to purchase. Then propaganda is produced in order for you to buy the more expensive option. There are a lot of people who can afford to buy wild salmon all the time. But then don't eat farm fish because they're told it can kill them. But then proceed to eat doritos and hostess products. Stop uneducating Americans. On what they should eat You're only making a bigger problem. I can't tell you how many people who are definitely significantly overweight Buying seafood and are afraid to eat farm salmon. One, in fact, if you are unhealthy, it's probably one of the things you should be eating the most .