A new report exposes the massive use of antibiotics that fuels the U.S. market for salmon.
Prompted by Oceana, Chile has revealed that its fish farms use hundreds of times more antibiotics than Norway, the world’s leading producer of farmed salmon, according to a report in the New York Times. Chile provides most of the farmed salmon available on the U.S. market, according to the Environmental Defense Fund, which had already labeled farmed Atlantic salmon as an "eco-worst" choice at the fish market.
Movies like Food, Inc. and books like the Omnivore’s Dilemma have in recent years opened our eyes to the problems with industrialized agriculture on land. Unfortunately, some of the same problems — cramped crowded conditions where disease can easily fester, overuse of antibiotics and an unnatural and unhealthy diet — are also common on some fish farms.