‘Unnatural’: Your Salmon May Have Been Fed Chicken – Blame the Surge in Fish Meal Prices

Would you eat salmon that's been fed chicken? (Credit: Unsplash)

This isn't a one-off – Europe's biggest salmon producers are slowly making a habit out of feeding chicken to their fish, and just the very sound of that, feels taboo. Understandably so, supermarkets in Britain and several European countries have for years, declined to stock salmon that has been raised on livestock, or adjacent products. Backlash from consumers over the 'unnatural' practice was the primary fear. Incidentally, the use of livestock byproducts as feed for fish was banned in Britain until 2013 – the spread of diseases such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy was the primary concern. However, the current rise in costs as well as carbon emissions is what has driven to a more 'open-minded' approach in keeping their fresh fish, fed.

The issue stands in the fact that chicken byproducts fed to the fish are made up of parts of the bird not fit for human consumption – think bone, liver, brain and the likes. However, feed chicken to fish is not that outlandish an approach, given that salmon farmers in Chile and Canad have been doing the same for years. Europe and Britain are now falling in line…

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