NEWS OF THE DAY News 13. 'Salmon from Fish Farm May Have Cancer Risk.'

News 13. 'Salmon from Fish Farm May Have Cancer Risk.'

[WORDS]
  * salmon : n. 연어
  * conflicting : a. 상충하는, 상반되는
  * emerge : v. 나타나다, 드러나다, 나오다
  * brim (with) : ...로 넘치다
  * pellet : n. 작은 환약(형태의 물건이나 음식)
  * concentrated : a. 응축/농축된
  * carcinogen : n. 발암성 물질
  * dioxin : n. 다이옥신(독성이 강한 유기염소 화합물; 제초제 등)
  * immune system : n. 면역 시스템
  * established : a. 입증된, 확립된, 확실한 입지/기반을 잡은
  * merchant : n. 상인
  * tremendously : ad. 굉장히, 아주
  * go on a hunt : 사냥하러 가다 - 알아보다

  In other news today, there's a warning about salmon, a food we are told has many health benefits. The American Heart Association has recommended for some time that people should try to eat salmon or certain other fish twice a week. But as happened so often with our food, conflicting advice has emerged. It is all about, in this case, where the salmon comes from. Here's ABC's Ned Potter.

  Almost any doctor will say salmon is excellent for you and the waters of the world are brimming with them. But more than half the salmon people eat now comes from fish farms, giant enclosures in the water, where salmon can be grown by the millions and fed pellets of concentrated fish meal. It's that meal that has some scientists worried. 'They have carcinogens that also affect the function of the brain, that also affect the function of the immune system.'

  Dr. David Carpenter and his colleagues compared farmed salmon to salmon from the ocean, and reported in the journal Science that they contained ten to twenty times more PCBs, dioxins and other chemicals believed to cause cancer.
'If I wanted to eat it all the time, I would pay attention to where it came from.'

But there is vast disagreement over the size of the risk. Some say the heart benefits of fish are well established and the cancer risk is tiny. Merchants and fish farmers, whose business grew tremendously until a few years ago, wonder how the public will react. 'We're going to be selling probably a lot more of the eco-fish, the wild seafood, the wild salmon and probably less of the farm-raised.'

Nobody says people should stop eating salmon. The question is whether you should go on a hunt to figure out where the salmon came from.
Ned Potter, ABC News, New York.