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Salmon Wars: The Dark Underbelly of Our Favorite Fish Audiobook, by Catherine Collins Play Audiobook Sample

Salmon Wars: The Dark Underbelly of Our Favorite Fish Audiobook

Salmon Wars: The Dark Underbelly of Our Favorite Fish Audiobook, by Catherine Collins Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Amy McFadden Publisher: Macmillan Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 9.17 hours at 1.5x Speed 6.88 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: July 2022 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781250856487

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

62

Longest Chapter Length:

45:12 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

39 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

26:37 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

"After listening to Amy McFadden's narration of this exposé, salmon croquettes may never taste the same. McFadden uses a podcaster- style of storytelling, friendly and righteous, to animate the history of farmed salmon's calculated rise to prominence."- AudioFile A Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent and a former private investigator dive deep into the murky waters of the international salmon farming industry, exposing the unappetizing truth about a fish that is not as good for you as you have been told. A decade ago, farmed Atlantic salmon replaced tuna as the most popular fish on 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. A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and Company.

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"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

Quotes

  • From cigarettes being tossed in a salmon pen to dark murky waters filled with litter, this is how America’s favorite fish are being ‘cared for.’ Salmon Wars will open your eyes to cruelty that parallels puppy mills and all the things we, as Americans, stand against. Frantz and Collins have delivered a book that you will not put down—bravo!

    — Allen Ricca, author of Catching Hell: The Insider Story of Seafood from Ocean to Plate
  • 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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About the Authors

Douglas Frantz is managing editor of the Los Angeles Times, where he has been a business reporter, an investigative reporter, and a foreign correspondent based in Istanbul. He has also been a reporter for the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune. He was part of the New York Times team that won a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service and in addition is a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist. He has also won several other honors for his investigative reporting.

About Amy McFadden

Amy McFadden has narrated more than two hundred titles in many different genres. She is an AudioFile Earphones Award winner and has been a finalist for the prestigious Audie Award for best narration. She has acted on stage throughout Michigan for more than twenty years and in commercials and film for ten years. She is a founding member of Dog Story Theater in Grand Rapids, Michigan.