Misleading health food claims

It's just not healthy

  • Independent flesh testing by one of Australia’s leading labs showed 200g of Tasmanian-produced Atlantic salmon actually has more fat than a Big Mac and a serving of fries.
  • Just as bad in many ways, lab testing of “farmed” salmon portions found 39% were antibiotic resistant resulting from all the treatments needed to keep fish alive in crowded pens where disease proliferates. Antibiotics resistance is considered by the WHO as one of the biggest threats to global human health.
Fatty Salmon
salmon artificial colouring

Salmon Colouring

  • Salmon companies like you to think their product is a naturally healthy pink. Wild salmon are just that because they consume crustaceans containing astaxanthin.
  • Tasmania industrial salmon is naturally grey and is fed synthetic petrochemical-based astaxanthin so that the companies get to choose the hue of pink from a colour chart.

Ethoxyquin Use

Tasmanian-produced salmon flesh contains ethoxyquin (EQ) found in feed pellets as a stabiliser. Originally developed by Monsanto as a pesticide, it’s banned from human consumption in Europe because it’s potentially carcinogenic and mutagenic.

EQ has been shown to cross the blood–brain barrier of animals, can accumulate in the fatty tissue of humans, lead to chromosome breakage and is detectable in human breast milk.