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Disgusting salmon farming getting worse.

LynLyn Posts: 23,190
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This gets worse, not better. How this can still be going on is beyond me. I suppose it will while people still buy it.
https://ecohustler.com/technology/zombie-salmon-found-suffering-at-rspca-approved-farms-stuns-world-media
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

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  • CrazybeeladyCrazybeelady Posts: 778
    I just don't think the majority of people even consider the conditions fish are kept in 😞. I don't buy much fish at all but I look for some kind of mark on the packaging to suggest they haven't suffered. I thought RSPCA approved was fairly trustworthy but I guess not! Maybe I'll just stop altogether in that case. 
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    The RSPCA is not good,  it was them that checked out the farm reported to have started the Foot &Mouth outbreak and said his farming practices were oK! 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • CeresCeres Posts: 2,698
    Salmon farming is very bad for the environment. The public have been sold the lie that we can all eat like kings but they haven't been told about the cost.
  • salarsalar Posts: 11
    If a farmer did that to his animals he would get banned from being near animals for life.
    The only way this will stop is to stop buying this disgusting product.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Just like one bad farm doesn't make the whole farming industry bad, one bad salmon farming enterprise doesn't make all salmon farming bad.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    edited August 2023
    Quite right @KT53 but there is a disturbingly high incidence of poor conditions and quality in farmed salmon.  Now that we live near a coast we tend to buy locally caught and landed.   

    Wild salmon is very rare here but hake is good value most of the year and there's plenty of other white fish and shellfish available along with mackerel, herring and sardines.   I find farmed salmon always looks a bit fatty and flabby so wait to but salmon trout when it's on offer and looking good.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Farmed salmon is full of fat and antibiotics,  best not mention lice.
    I only buy wild but it’s quite expensive.
    It’s as bad in Norway,  I wouldn’t have thought they would have bad practice like that. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • debs64debs64 Posts: 5,184
    After watching a programme about fishing I will never eat fish again. I don’t buy any catfood that contains fish either. No seafood of any sort in this house. 
  • ErgatesErgates Posts: 2,953
    On the very rare occasions that I buy salmon, it’s the wild Alaskan version from Waitrose. Yes, it’s very expensive, but we just eat it less often and smaller portions when we do. Same with meat and poultry, only free range, and if that means one chicken breast  between the two of us, that’s only fair.
    Also shocked about the plans to build an octopus farm, I think in the Canaries, with the poor creatures kept in very inhuman conditions. We are trying very hard to be as fully vegetarian as possible, given that OH is not a big fan of any vegetables apart from potatoes!
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Sea trout is treated even worse.  Cruel practices going on all because billions of people now need feeding. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

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