Catherine Collins, Douglas Frantz

Salmon Wars (eBook, ePUB)

The Dark Underbelly of Our Favorite Fish

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent and a former private investigator dive deep into the murky waters of the international salmon farming industry, exposing the unappetizing truth about a fish that is not as good for you as you have been told.

A decade ago, farmed Atlantic salmon replaced tuna as the most popular fish on North America's dinner tables. We are told salmon is healthy and environmentally friendly. The reality is disturbingly different.

In Salmon Wars, investigative journalists Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins bring readers to massive ocean feedlots where millions of salmon are crammed into parasite-plagued cages and fed a chemical-laced diet. The authors reveal the conditions inside hatcheries, where young salmon are treated like garbage, and at the farms that threaten our fragile coasts. They draw colorful portraits of characters, such as the big salmon farmer who poisoned his own backyard, the fly-fishing activist who risked everything to ban salmon farms in Puget Sound, and the American researcher driven out of Norway for raising the alarm about dangerous contaminants in the fish. Frantz and Collins document how the industrialization of Atlantic salmon threatens this keystone species, endangers our health and environment, and lines the pockets of our generation's version of Big Tobacco. And they show how it doesn't need to be this way.

Just as Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation forced a reckoning with the Big Mac, the vivid stories, scientific research, and high-stakes finance at the heart of Salmon Wars will inspire readers to make choices that protect our health and our planet.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Henry Holt and Co.
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781250800312
• Artikelnr.: 62393411

Autorenporträt

Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
PART I BIG FISH EAT LITTLE FISH
Chapter 1 Consolidating the Forces
Chapter 2 Conquering Canada
Chapter 3 Poisoning Your Own Backyard
Chapter 4 The Resistance
Chapter 5 Attack, Counterattack
Chapter 6 Health Matters
Chapter 7 Whom Can You Trust?
Chapter 8 Out of Sight, Out of Mind
Chapter 9 No Smoking Gun
Chapter 10 Mother Norway
Chapter 11 The Anatomy of Harm
Chapter 12 "Sorry, Guys"
Chapter 13 The Ocean Is Running Out of Fish
PART II IN THE TRENCHES
Chapter 14 "Something Is Seriously Wrong"
Chapter 15 Battling on Multiple Fronts
Chapter 16 Case Closed
Chapter 17 Risky Business
Chapter 18 "We're Really Proud of Who Hates Us"
Chapter 19 Millions of Dead Salmon
Chapter 20 Keep Your Mouth Shut
Chapter 21 Lobster in the Crosshairs
Chapter 22 "Shit Happens"
PART III THE NEXT WAR
Chapter 23 Saving Wild Salmon
Chapter 24 Preservation on the Penobscot
Chapter 25 Judgment in New York
Chapter 26 Growing Salmon in Florida
Chapter 27 Revolution in Wisconsin
Chapter 28 Now What?
Source Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index