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Old 07-30-2003, 02:41 PM   #12
Timber Loftis
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Join Date: July 11, 2002
Location: Chicago, IL
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Originally posted by Djinn Raffo:
Most farm fish is also pumped full of steroids.
I would surmize grey muscle matter (rather than orange) in farmed Salmon is due to substituting steroid chemical-induced muscle growth for natural muscle development ocurring over 50,000 miles of swimming.

As an aside, I believe the North Atlantic Salmon spends 3 to 4 years at sea before first returning home to spawn, and is 7 years old before its really the marketable commercial Salmon we think of on our plate. These critters simply require too much time before they're mature -- their population cannot sustain food demands.

[ 07-30-2003, 03:22 PM: Message edited by: Timber Loftis ]
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