Click on the links below to learn the latest about the benefits of eating wild salmon:
The Government's Big Fish Story
Scientists worldwide are praising a nutrient so powerful that it may help combat dozens of diseases.
http://health.msn.com/general/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100166680&page=1
Fish in Mother's Diet Benefits Child, Study Finds
A large study has found that children of women who ate little fish during pregnancy had lower IQs and more behavioral and social problems than youngsters whose mothers ate plenty of seafood, a finding that challenges the U.S. government's standard advice to limit seafood while pregnant.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/15/AR2007021501515_pf.html
When It Comes to Fish, Go Wild
The free-range varieties are better for you than their farm-bred cousins.
Business Week Investor, January 27, 2003
www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/03_04/b3817133.htm
Community Food Security Coalition (CFSC)
The Community Food Security Coalition (CFSC) is a non-profit, North American organization dedicated to building strong, sustainable, local and regional food systems that ensure access to affordable, nutritious, and culturally appropriate food for all people at all times. We seek to develop self-reliance among all communities in obtaining their food and to create a system of growing, manufacturing, processing, making available, and selling food that is regionally based and grounded in the principles of justice, democracy, and sustainability.
http://www.foodsecurity.org/
Washington's Farmers Markets
www.wafarmersmarkets.com
Dr. Andrew Weil, M.D.:
"Fish oil is a rich source of EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid) and DHA (docosahexaenoic acid), omega-3 fatty acids. Fish oils seems to protect against heart attack, stroke, cancer and inflammatory diseases like rheumatoid arthritis. It is involved in protection against disease in several ways. The most important include "thinning" the blood and preventing blood clots, and being converted into less inflammatory prostaglandins and reducing inflammation. Oily fleshed, cold water fish like salmon and sardines are the best sources of fish oil".
www.drweil.com
Straight Talk about Eating Seafood During Pregnancy
Some kinds of fish are safe and healthy to eat regularly. They are low in contaminants, and high in omega-3s. These fish include all forms of salmon….
Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute
http://www.alaskaseafood.org/flavor/Straight%20Talk-Pregnancy-02.pdf
Cheap Salmon, Hidden Costs
Mass-produced famed salmon are bad for native fish and people
Tide Pool, 7/24/03
http://www.tidepool.org/original_content.cfm?articleid=85313
David Suzuki Foundation
The David Suzuki Foundation primarily studies salmon farming and shellfish farming, and their effects on the marine environments where they occur.
http://www.davidsuzuki.org/Oceans/Fish_Farming/
