For a long time, I wouldn’t buy fish to cook at home unless it was wild. Wild fish is the healthiest, most news articles touted, since these fish are eating what they are supposed to eat and we know they aren’t being fed grain and getting pumped chemicals that fish aren’t supposed to have. I told a friend of mine this a while ago, and he responded to me, “Wild isn’t as important as sustainable.” I thought about it a long while, and I realized he was probably right. Just because farmed fish in the U.S. may be questionable, or especially the farmed fish in China (the video images I’ve seen of this are by far enough to make anyone go off of eating farmed fish forever), doesn’t mean that farmed fish in countries with sustainable and environmentally friendly fish farming practices like New Zealand or Iceland are bad or unhealthy. The demand for fish is high, and only relying on fish in the wild isn’t a sustainable practice (plus, wild fish is generally very expensive). So I bought farmed arctic char raised in Iceland and roasted it for dinner tonight. I’m getting over my farmed fish fears little by little.

And as if all the fish I’ve eaten in restaurants in this country were wild!