The First Human-Made Animal You Can Eat: The History of Salmon

If you ordered salmon nigiri in Tokyo before the late 1980s, most sushi chefs would have refused to serve it to you. Not because it was expensive or hard to find, but because raw salmon was considered dangerous and completely wrong for sushi. The dish that's now the most popular item on sushi menus worldwide didn't come from tradition. It was invented, on purpose, by a marketing campaign, less than forty years ago. In this video we trace salmon's real story: from an 11,500-year-old cooking hearth in Alaska, to the sacred salmon mythology of the Pacific Northwest and Ireland, to the two Norwegian brothers who invented modern salmon farming in 1971, to "Project Japan," the government-backed campaign that manufactured sushi's most iconic dish from scratch, to a genetically engineered "Frankenfish" approved by the FDA, and the 2017 net pen collapse that dumped a quarter million farmed salmon into Puget Sound. 👍 Like the video if you learned something new. 📺 Subscribe for more strange and fascinating food history #salmon #foodhistory #sushi #sushihistory #salmonfarming #fooddocumentary #japan #norway #frankenfish #morsellore history of salmon, why salmon sushi is not traditional, Project Japan salmon marketing, Norwegian salmon farming history, farmed vs wild salmon, AquAdvantage GMO salmon, Frankenfish salmon, Cypress Island salmon spill, astaxanthin salmon color, salmon farming Norway 1971, sushi history salmon, Pacific Northwest salmon mythology, salmon of knowledge Ireland, food lore, history of sushi