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We only buy wild salmon. The main reason is that I do not believe that farmed salmon contain any omega-3 fatty acids. Wild salmon get their omega-3's from the food chain that starts at the algae that create them. For the same reason we would never order salmon in a restaurant. What is the the point of eating salmon at any price if the most important nutrient is missing? That should be the key argument against farmed salmon. Unless the farms are feeding the salmon with wild herring, etc, they will contain no omega-3's. I have heard that some salmon farms are feeding salmon with corn, so you will not only get no omega-3's, but will get addditional omega-6's, which although necessary are toxic in large quantities. We should be paying for nutritional benefit, not quantity. But of course that is not the American way.
