I want to start off by saying that fish
is one of the healthiest foods you can
eat in theory they are a great source of
omega threes and countries with very
long lifespans like Japan consume large
amounts of fish all the time
however the fish that the majority of
you with the viewers are consuming right
now is by far one of the most toxic and
dangerous foods you can consume on a
regular basis see the large majority of
fish that we consume nowadays is farmed
fish in 2009 it was reported that half
of the fish consumed globally was raised
in fish farms this number is expected to
reach two-thirds of the population 5 20
30 the reason why you should not eat
fish is because of what happens in these
fish farms for example let's take a look
at one of the most popular fishes
consumed nowadays salmon over seventy
percent of salmon is raised in fish
farms Norway being one of the largest
producers a well-known environmental
activist Kurt Oddekalv investigated
some of these Norwegian fish farms he
discovered that the salmon on these
farms were packed very tightly each farm
holding up to two million salmon and
because the population was so high
disease ran rampant amongst the fish
diseases like sea lies and is a
infectious salmon anemia virus were
extremely common which forced the fish
farmers to use large amounts of
pesticides and antibiotics to protect
their stock pesticides are ok when you
use them on plants and fruits because
you can always wash a large majority of
them off or peel the skin but when you
spray thousands of gallons of it into
the water for your fish it gets into the
fish meet some of you might be thinking
well the fishes probably excrete a large
amount of it right
well the thing about toxins like
pesticides and antibiotics is that they
tend to cling onto fat the fish that is
raised on fish farms are significantly
faster than fish founded a wild wild
salmon contains about five to seven
percent of fat farm salmon contains
anywhere from fifteen to thirty four
percent fat this means that a
significantly larger percentage of those
pesticides accumulates in these fish now
some of you might be thinking well
surely there must be regulations on you
pesticides antibiotics that these fish
farms use well to some extent there is
however there is one source of toxins
that is completely unregulated the fish
feed the food that they feed the fish
see the large majority of fish feed in
Europe is made of tiny fatty fish such
as seals found in the Baltic Sea farmers
like to use fatty fish for the fishtails
because they can grow their fish at an
incredible speed
the problem with this is that the waters
of the Baltic Sea are considered to be
extremely contaminated factually stop
large amounts of industrial waste into
the Baltic every single day
it's so bad that countries surrounding
the Baltic Sea like Sweden even wonder
citizens about the potential toxicity of
these fish and although all of this fish
is not fit for human consumption
there are no regulations against them
using them to feed their fish so when
you take hundreds of thousands of tiny
fatty eels who live in contaminated
water and you ground them up into fish
feed and then you feed this fish feed to
your salmon and your carbon your tuna
toxins get passed on to the fish that
eat them you might be thinking well this
is far-fetched how bad could it be
well a toxicology researcher named
Jerome Rosen decided to test the amount
of toxins found in farm to fish he found
that farm salmon had by far the most
amount of toxins in their meat than any
other food group
it had five times the amount of toxins
than the next most contaminated food
which was Burger me five times now what
are the effects of these toxins on our
bodies while there have been studies on
mice in which they fed the test group
farm salmon and the control group wild
salmon the mice that a farm salmon grew
obese developed layers of fat around the
internal organs and even develop
diabetes
one can only wonder what the effects of
these toxins would have on human beings
so what can I do about this should I
just avoid fish completely for the rest
of my life
well as it stands right now you
definitely should avoid farmed fish
which is basically the majority of fish
that you find at your local supermarket
any fish that is frozen and the fish
that you served in most of
portable sushi places the cheaper the
fish the more likely it comes from a
fish farm
honestly you only really have two
options if you want to stay healthy
the first is to somehow find wild caught
fish and the second is to avoid eating
fish completely