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Public "suckered" about farmed salmon?
Responding to a recent letter in the Chronicle Herald from self-proclaimed salmon farming expert and academic Jon Grant, Halifax restaurant owner and "clean food" specialist Lil MacPherson said that consumers have been "suckered" about the health effects of farmed salmon and that she not only refuses to serve that salmon to the thousands of loyal customersd who frequent her two popular Wooden Monkey eateries, but she would not feed it to her dog.
Grant, who in some circles is called a "pimp" for corporate salmon farming interests, penned a recent Herald piece which extolled the virtues of open net pen salmon farming, which has been challenged in recent years in every country in which it is practiced as unsustainable and damaging to marine ecosystems.
McPherson writes that, after doing a lot of her own research on farmed Atlantic salmon, her conclusion was "not to feed farmed salmon to my dog, let alone my customers."
"And yes, I have read enough to realize the only thing Cooke Aquaculture is trying to sustain is its profits," MacPherson writes. "There is nothing good nor healthy about this practice, and we have been suckered."