Comments on: Thinking about Nature http://www.haggardandhalloo.com/2007/10/11/thinking-about-nature/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=thinking-about-nature Publishing Creative and Contemporary Writing Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:07:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Halifax http://www.haggardandhalloo.com/2007/10/11/thinking-about-nature/comment-page-1/#comment-383 Halifax Sat, 13 Oct 2007 12:52:17 +0000 http://www.haggardandhalloo.com/2007/10/11/thinking-about-nature/#comment-383 Astaxanthin is the artificial color used to enhance the pinkish color in salmon flesh. How it is added is more insidious then simply brushing it on. The beta-caritinoid astaxanthin is fed to the captive-raised salmon throughout the entire life of the fish. It taints the skin, flesh, and bone with a red hue. It's a bit like humans raised for slaughter on an all carrot diet because our alien overlords prefer to eat orange-tinted people. Astaxanthin is taken from the brine shrimp that flamingos eat. For that reason, when I see captive-raised salmon in the store it always makes me think of kitschy plastic yard flamingos. I like how you open this writing by having set yourself up to returning home under your own power uphill with a belly full of eggs. Then you end with your inevitable funeral. Earthworm Envy indeed. Astaxanthin is the artificial color used to enhance the pinkish color in salmon flesh. How it is added is more insidious then simply brushing it on. The beta-caritinoid astaxanthin is fed to the captive-raised salmon throughout the entire life of the fish. It taints the skin, flesh, and bone with a red hue. It’s a bit like humans raised for slaughter on an all carrot diet because our alien overlords prefer to eat orange-tinted people.

Astaxanthin is taken from the brine shrimp that flamingos eat. For that reason, when I see captive-raised salmon in the store it always makes me think of kitschy plastic yard flamingos.

I like how you open this writing by having set yourself up to returning home under your own power uphill with a belly full of eggs. Then you end with your inevitable funeral. Earthworm Envy indeed.

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