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[whispercricket]

Saw Nausicaa. Excellent movie, but due to my current mental state, screwed with my head a bit more than I wanted (hit me almost as much as Grave of the Fireflies, which I also thought was good but never want to see again). Lovely soundtrack.

Finally did the research on salmon, and wild Alaskan / Pacific salmon (there's supposedly not really any harvestable wild Atlantic salmon left, at least not for years) is vastly better both for the environment and for personal health than farmed salmon. There's a *huge* difference, to the point that I am definitely not eating farm-raised salmon again (which means most restaurant salmon). I mention this because my first reaction was that farm-raised salmon would be fine and possibly even help with over-fishing concerns, which is so not the case, and it also surprised arawen, so I thought I should share.

(Reference #1, Reference #2, and I could go on and on but I won't.)

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[mindways]

Huh. Yeah, that's the opposite of what I would have expected off-the-cuff...

[keshwyn]

Did you watch the dub or the sub? I love Nausicaa, but I don't watch it regularly - it's too powerful for that. *hug*

And...that's fascinating about the salmon. Wow. I'm left wondering about the bias on those websites. Perhaps I'll just try to drop my salmon consumption and eat other fishies instead.

[whispercricket]

Sub (of course :) ).

I just pulled two, but this was the view across the board (I didn't research that long, really but wow), and it makes sense (salmon are carnivores, and farming at the top of the food chain isn't that great an idea). You can get wild salmon at the supermarket - it just costs a little more up-front (versus hidden costs for the cheaper stuff). I did think it was a bit odd that the best way to help the threatened-by-farmed-salmon wild salmon was to actually buy and eat it, versus not eating swordfish because it's endangered (which is too bad, because swordfish probably is my favorite fish), but...I'm not making too much sense, so I think I'll have to think more about that later.

(Oceana.org is obviously biased towards the environment, but is fairly reliable otherwise I think. I forget what the other link I used was. Their facts and details made sense to me, in that I was looking for an explanation of why farmed salmon wasn't a good idea.)