A review by lunmione
Salmon Wars: The Dark Underbelly of Our Favorite Fish by Douglas Frantz, Catherine Collins
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 death and Animal cruelty