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Salmon Wars: The Dark Underbelly of Our Favorite Fish by Douglas Frantz, Catherine Collins
3 reviews
aus10england's review against another edition
medium-paced
3.5
LOOOOOOONG!!!! But as a Washington State native, many of the stories were fascinating. I learned a lot! At a certain point the stories felt repetative, could have been maybe a fourth shorter and gotten the point across even better.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death
mscalls's review
informative
reflective
tense
fast-paced
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death
lunmione's review
informative
medium-paced
3.0
at one point this book includes the extremely unfounded and harmful idea that eating farm salmon can cause autism. so there's that!
in the spirit of fairness i will say that this book has a lot of well made points and helpful information, and the writing makes what can be a hard and dense subject understandable and interesting. despite that, the inclusion of the autism thing really downgrades any credibility i might have given it before. also, while i don't think bias in reporting is always a bad thing (false equivalency is a serious issue) i think this book could benefit from toning down how aggressive it is in it's beginning. ease ppl into a thing. there is also a certain amount of repetition.
in the spirit of fairness i will say that this book has a lot of well made points and helpful information, and the writing makes what can be a hard and dense subject understandable and interesting. despite that, the inclusion of the autism thing really downgrades any credibility i might have given it before. also, while i don't think bias in reporting is always a bad thing (false equivalency is a serious issue) i think this book could benefit from toning down how aggressive it is in it's beginning. ease ppl into a thing. there is also a certain amount of repetition.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death
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