A few days ago I was at Harris Teeter, a grocery store in the Mid-Atlantic region, and purchased organic salmon. I had never heard of organic fish and so I asked the man behind the counter what exactly it meant to be “organic” fish. He told me it meant it was farm-raised but feed with grains, presumably organic grains, although I’m not sure about that.
I am not really part of the organic food movement and really couldn’t tell you much about how foods are certified as organic. But, it seems odd to me that a fish raised in a fish farm, regardless of how it was feed, could be labeled as organic. I mean, the fish was breed for the purpose of being consumed by humans, it never saw a river, lake or ocean, didn’t eat its natural diet, yet is somehow “organic.” This seems to make a mockery of all things organic if farm-raised fish are allowed to be called organic.
It seemed to me to be a way to charge me $12/lb instead of the $8/lb I’ve paid in the past for “regular” farm-raised salmon. The fish was delicious and I’m generally in favor of farm-raised fish since it doesn’t encourage over-fishing and should have lower mercury content than its wild counterpart. However, I’m not sure it was 50% better than the standard farm-raised salmon.
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