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A recent study found that salmon farming is better than beef farming though not by much. In fact UK’s salmon farming was the worst of the lot while Norway’s salmon farms scored the best. In fact if Norway (or any salmon farm) were to switch to more plant feed instead of feeding ground animals they could cut the environmental destruction in half.
Salmon’s ecological finprint measured – environment – 04 November 2009 – New Scientist: “Overall, salmon farming has been a food success story: global production has soared from 500 tonnes a year in 1970 to 1.5 million tonnes today. But it also consumes energy, pollutes coastal waters and depletes populations of the smaller fish on which the salmon are fed.”
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