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Norway became a global salmon behemoth. Now it's facing the consequences

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Re: Norway became a global salmon behemoth. Now it's facing the consequences

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Post by ksec »

stymaar wrote: post #39
ksec wrote: post #30

1. The Title should be "Norway became a global salmon behemoth. Now it's facing the consequences". It fits the character limit, why change it? 2. A lot of the conditions for Salmon farming can be drastically improved or completely eliminated if they have done it further away in deep sea rather than coast. It just cost more. 3. China is rapidly improving their Salmon Farming so there isn't much to worry about for Norw…

Points 2 and 3 kind of contradict themselves though, as China doesn't have access to deep sea (at least until the invasion of Taiwan or if China manage to take control of their claimed share of South China Sea).

They are doing both landlocked and mobile deep-sea methods farming with success. In typical Chinese fashion as they have done with Fruit and other food productions, I wouldn't be surprised if they could scale it 10x within 5 years. I doubt it will take away Norway's supply to Japan in the short term due to quality and trust issues. But export to China may be lowered.

Re: Norway became a global salmon behemoth. Now it's facing the consequences

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Post by Etheryte »

freedom_dev wrote: post #47

"Sushi has been consumed in Japan for more than 1,000 years but the Japanese had historically preferred tuna, seeing raw salmon as parasite-ridden and unpleasant to the palette. " English isn't my first language and even I know "palette" is wrong. Is it normal for official news outlets to write stuff like this?

I'm sure you've never made a typo or mixed up two similar words before.

Re: Norway became a global salmon behemoth. Now it's facing the consequences

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Post by whyenot »

freedom_dev wrote: post #47

"Sushi has been consumed in Japan for more than 1,000 years but the Japanese had historically preferred tuna, seeing raw salmon as parasite-ridden and unpleasant to the palette. " English isn't my first language and even I know "palette" is wrong. Is it normal for official news outlets to write stuff like this?

Maybe they are painting the fish and find the experience unenjoyable? :)

Re: Norway became a global salmon behemoth. Now it's facing the consequences

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Post by [deleted] »

freedom_dev wrote: post #47

"Sushi has been consumed in Japan for more than 1,000 years but the Japanese had historically preferred tuna, seeing raw salmon as parasite-ridden and unpleasant to the palette. " English isn't my first language and even I know "palette" is wrong. Is it normal for official news outlets to write stuff like this?

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Re: Norway became a global salmon behemoth. Now it's facing the consequences

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Post by geysersam »

rsolva wrote: post #22
onesandofgrain wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Astaxanthin for the color fair. What about the salmon is bad for pregnant women?

Fatty fish accumulates heavy metales and other unhealthy components and pregnant women in Norway is told to limit the intake. But it has been controversial, the industry is not happy with these recommendations!

Can you link to those recommendations? I can't find anything on the Norwegian public health sites specifically about farmed salmon.

Re: Norway became a global salmon behemoth. Now it's facing the consequences

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Post by gtowey »

freedom_dev wrote: post #47

"Sushi has been consumed in Japan for more than 1,000 years but the Japanese had historically preferred tuna, seeing raw salmon as parasite-ridden and unpleasant to the palette. " English isn't my first language and even I know "palette" is wrong. Is it normal for official news outlets to write stuff like this?

I'm a native English speaker and before your comment, I never noticed that palette, pallet, and palate are different words!

Re: Norway became a global salmon behemoth. Now it's facing the consequences

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Post by [deleted] »

syoc wrote: post #9

Strange to have an article about salmon farming drawbacks without mentioning escaped salmons polluting the wild salmon population. There has been a strong decrease in wild salmon as they lose the ability to migrate back up the river to lay their eggs due to breeding with escaped farming salmon.

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Re: Norway became a global salmon behemoth. Now it's facing the consequences

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Post by undersuit »

learn_more wrote: post #33
panarky wrote: post #23

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> A hamburger probably has a better nutritional value than farmed salmon. A sensational statement that is utterly false. Per 100g, Norwegian farmed salmon has 0.1x the sodium, 0.5x the saturated fat, 2x the protein, 20x the Omega-3 fatty acids and infinity-x the vitamin D of your hamburger. Farmed salmon is a minimally processed single-ingredient protein, while your hamburger is ultra-processed and packed with refine…

cooked salmon and cooked ground beef seem to have similar amounts of protein per my cursory research.

A hamburger would have a bun at least. We're not comparing filets to patties... which could also contain additions like onion or egg.

Re: Norway became a global salmon behemoth. Now it's facing the consequences

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Post by [deleted] »

eth0up wrote: post #37
Aurornis wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> A hamburger probably has a better nutritional value than farmed salmon. Why would you think that? Ground beef typically has higher saturated fat than even farmed salmon and a lot less omega-3. A hamburger adds a refined carbohydrate bun and sauces on top of that. I think your political beliefs are overriding factual accuracy. > And the color is fake, if they do not add coloring to the food, farmed salmon would be g…

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Re: Norway became a global salmon behemoth. Now it's facing the consequences

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Post by dfxm12 »

freedom_dev wrote: post #47

"Sushi has been consumed in Japan for more than 1,000 years but the Japanese had historically preferred tuna, seeing raw salmon as parasite-ridden and unpleasant to the palette. " English isn't my first language and even I know "palette" is wrong. Is it normal for official news outlets to write stuff like this?

No. Sometimes the spill checker just auto co-wrecks people.
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