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Salmon Gone Wild, or Is It Just Sold That Way?By MARIAN BURROS April 10, 2005

The crux of this tale is that an investigative report by the New York Times revealed that food merchants are big fat liars. Or, as the article puts it: "Tests performed for The New York Times in March on salmon sold as wild by eight New York City stores, at an average price of $19 a pound, showed that the fish at six of the eight were farm raised."

For context, remember that "In the last two years two scientific studies have reported that farmed fish contain more PCB's and other contaminants than wild fish, and numerous studies have called farming practices an environmental hazard."

Now, if it weren't enough that the grocery stores involved were revealed to be liars, get this genius excuse ... "At M. Slavin & Sons in Brooklyn, the store manager, Phil Cohen, said: "Our salmon is from Canada. All wild salmon in Canada is farm raised." The reporter notes that: "A whole salmon sold to this reporter as wild from Slavin's in the Fulton Fish Market was pulled from a box marked 'farmed Canada.' "

Bah! It's a good thing I've already accepted my slow death by salmon.

And now I must continue to swim upstream here at work....