Question for Sue about mercury in farm Salmon

[Guest guest]

Sue, can you give us a link about farm Salmon having more mercury?

I'm curious about why that would be. Thanks for posting that NYT

link, it's fascinating - and disturbing - reading.

> > Finally, Cheney's report of the study in which all 13 ICM

patients whose heart

> > muscle biopsies showed them to be 23,000 times higher in mercury

than the

> > controls floors me.

>

> Hi ,

>

> We take the mercury warnings seriously. We used to eat a lot of

salmon, but

> when we read that farm salmon was high in mercury we switched to

relatively

> mercury-free wild Alaskan salmon. Or so we thought.

>

> In yesterday's New York Times there's an article that suggests

that most

> stores claiming to sell wild salmon are actually selling farm

salmon. In

> the New York City area, they did tests on " wild salmon " from

several stores

> and found that only one sample was genuine, wild salmon. Samples

from six

> other stores proved to be farm raised.

>

> I have noticed that what passes for wild salmon in our town

appears to be

> suspiciously orange.

>

> > http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/10/dining/10salmon.html?

>

> Sue ,

> Upstate New York