Andrew Zimmern
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“What we should be calling for is not to eliminate farmed seafood. How do we make it better?”
Andrew Zimmern · said date not stated · reported 2026-11-01
Zimmern cautioned against drawing sweeping conclusions about farmed seafood from the USDA-led study findings.
“There are some really good ones and [there are some] that are not so good,”
Andrew Zimmern · said date not stated · reported 2026-11-01
Zimmern, who said he has personally visited salmon farms in Chile, said farming practices can vary considerably.
“The question is what's going to replace it? We have a very reactionary society. Right? You can't take away millions, tens of millions, hundreds of millions, pounds of food globally and not replace it with something else,”
Andrew Zimmern · said date not stated · reported 2026-11-01
Zimmern argued that improving aquaculture is preferable to discouraging consumers from eating farmed fish altogether.
“Seafood has to prove itself innocent all the time, because everybody assumes it's just guilty, guilty, guilty,”
Andrew Zimmern · said date not stated · reported 2026-11-01
Zimmern argued that seafood often faces scrutiny that consumers don't apply equally to other animal proteins.