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A decade ago, farmed Atlantic salmon replaced tuna as the most popular fish on North America's dinner tables. We are told salmon is healthy and environmentally friendly. The reality is disturbingly different. In Salmon Wars, investigative journalists Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins bring readers to massive ocean feedlots where millions of salmon are crammed into parasite-plagued cages and fed a chemical-laced diet. The authors reveal the conditions inside hatcheries, where young salmon are treated like garbage, and at the farms that threaten our fragile coasts. They draw colorful portraits of characters, such as the big salmon farmer who poisoned his own backyard, the fly-fishing activist who risked everything to ban salmon farms in Puget Sound, and the American researcher driven out of Norway for raising the alarm about dangerous contaminants in the fish. Frantz and Collins document how the industrialization of Atlantic salmon threatens this keystone species, endangers our health and environment, and lines the pockets of our generation's version of Big Tobacco. And they show how it doesn't need to be this way. Just as Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation forced a reckoning with the Big Mac, the vivid stories, scientific research, and high-stakes finance at the heart of Salmon Wars will inspire readers to make choices that protect our health and our planet.

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Praise for Salmon Wars and Books by Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins Salmon Wars is a deep dive into the damage caused by current fish-farming methods to ocean environments, wild fish and their habitats, and the farmed fish themselves. It is also an account of the dismal failure of governments to stop such practices. Salmon farming needs reform. Until it gets it, read this book, and you will never eat farmed salmon again. --Marion Nestle, professor of nutrition, food studies, and public health, emerita, at New York University and author of What to Eat A vital act of reclamation. --The New York Times A meticulous, judicious, at times searing chronicle....It will leave no reader unmoved. --Chicago Tribune Thorough research and brisk prose... --Kirkus Reviews A book of meticulous, driven reporting... --Publishers Weekly Thought-provoking... --Library Journal

Praise for Books by Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins A vital act of reclamation. --The New York Times A meticulous, judicious, at times searing chronicle....It will leave no reader unmoved. --Chicago Tribune Thorough research and brisk prose... --Kirkus Reviews A book of meticulous, driven reporting... --Publishers Weekly Thought-provoking... --Library Journal

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Douglas Frantz is a former managing editor of the Los Angeles Times and shared a Pulitzer Prize as a foreign correspondent at the New York Times. After his career in journalism, he was chief investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, an assistant secretary of state in the Obama administration, and deputy secretary general at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris. Before leaving journalism for a career as a private investigator specializing in international financial fraud, Catherine Collins was a reporter and foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and a contributor to the New York Times and Los Angeles Times. Husband and wife, Frantz and Collins have written several nonfiction books together.

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