{"id":23,"date":"2004-10-06T21:46:11","date_gmt":"2004-10-07T06:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.taodekitchen.com\/2004\/10\/06\/wild-or-farmed\/"},"modified":"2006-01-09T21:39:15","modified_gmt":"2006-01-10T06:39:15","slug":"wild-or-farmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taodekitchen.com\/tasty\/general\/wild-or-farmed\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild or farmed?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many of us are trying to make better choices in our diets. I\u2019m currently enrolled in a nutrition program and the subject of wild or farmed fish came up. So what\u2019s better? I guess it just depends\u2026what I learned is that there is more to each point of view than simple blanket statements. To make a choice, we have to put in a bit of thought and educate ourselves.
\nYes, I suppose ‘wild’ may be better but you have to check that the fish is not on a seafood watch list that indicates that particular species is overfished. You can find this information online at various sites such as the <\/font>Monterey Bay Aquarium<\/font><\/a>.\u00a0 But then, you do still have to worry about fish from polluted waters that may be contaminated with mercury or pesticides.\u00a0 What’s the alternative?
\nSo what about \u2018farmed?\u2019 Our instructor brought up a good point here\u2026there are farms with good practices and there are farms with bad practices. Gosh, there sure is\u2026so don\u2019t lump all farmed fish into the same basket. Chickens are raised on farms after all and we can make a good choice by buying organic or free range chicken so why not with fish?
\n\u2018Wild\u2019 or \u2018Farmed?\u2019 It just depends\u2026for myself I only buy fish from a reputable fish market – a market who\u2019s staff can tell you exactly where the fish is from. And I do try to read up on what\u2019s on the \u201cBest Choice\u201d list from the Monterey Aquarium site. I do prefer wild fish for the flavor but recently tried an organically fed salmon and it was good.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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My instructor\u2019s feeling is that one to two servings of fish a week is more beneficial than detrimental to your health as long as the fish is from a good source.
\nWhat are the benefits of fish? Fish is a great source of protein, fish is low in saturated fat, fish from cold ocean waters are high in Omega 3 fatty acids which the typical diet is severely lacking, and fish is a good source for trace minerals. One caveat is that the farmed fish may not have significant amounts of Omega 3\u2019s depending on their diet – some farmed fish are fed a lot of grains along with fish meal where as wild salmon eat other fish.
\nSo with a bit of knowledge you can go out there and enjoy a few servings of fish a week without harm.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many of us are trying to make better choices in our diets. I\u2019m currently enrolled in a nutrition program and the subject of wild or farmed fish came up. So what\u2019s better? I guess it just depends\u2026what I learned is that there is more to each point of view than simple blanket statements. To make […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-nutrition-diet"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taodekitchen.com\/tasty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taodekitchen.com\/tasty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taodekitchen.com\/tasty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taodekitchen.com\/tasty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taodekitchen.com\/tasty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taodekitchen.com\/tasty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taodekitchen.com\/tasty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taodekitchen.com\/tasty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taodekitchen.com\/tasty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}