Eating Our Way To Extinction, Part 3 of 6

“Salmon is marketed as healthy. It’s also marketed in a very devious way, deceptive way – that they think it’s a wild product. So, it’s a fake product.〔…〕 So salmon, if you see salmon, alarm bells should start ringing.” “This is disease-ridden farmed salmon; it’s 15% to 20% fat.” “The guy who gave us the tip-off said that toxic chemicals are widely used across Scotland, including formaldehyde and also hydrogen peroxide. These are supposed to treat the diseases and lice problems which are rampant across the fish farms.”

“Our oceans have become humanity’s sewers.” “It burned a hole in my esophagus, and I literally collapsed.” “People begin to lose their hair (Yes.) and memory. What we’re seeing now with the toxic environmental exposure, and especially with the mercury – methylmercury – in fish, is that everyone has got to be careful because the levels are going up.” “Flax is the richest source of omega-3 that we, everybody, thinks should come from fish oil.” “And it turns out they get them from the algae in the ocean.”

A peer-reviewed study from researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego undertook one of the largest studies of fish pollutants in the world. The scientists found toxic contaminants in fish right across the planet’s oceans. A study recently published in the journal “Nature” found that about 80% of the plastic in the Pacific is made up of discarded fishing gear. A study by the University of Plymouth found that over a third of all the fish tested contained microplastics. As we eat these contaminated fish, we ingest the same toxic chemicals into our bodies, and recent research suggests similar toxic accumulation in humans.