#TurnerPrize nominated @CookingSections
talk to me all about their art installation currently at @Tate #Britain causing a bit of a storm, Salmon: A Red HerringTune in @BBCRadio4 in about 3 minutes!! @BBCFoodProg pic.twitter.com/44wHCUTvmN
— Jaega Wise (@jaegawise) June 13, 2021
Listen to the BBC Food Programme's expose of artificial colourings in Scottish 'pharmed' salmon online here via BBC iPlayer (starts at 16 mins 58 secs – available for over a year)
For those without access to BBC iPlayer the fishy feature can be listened to online here
Listen to the BBC Food Programme expose how pharmed salmon is artificially coloured & how Tate Britain is boycotting Scottish salmon with a fake tan@Tate @CookingSections @BBCFoodProg @SSPOsays @jaegawise @BBCSounds @NatTylerDigital @DSM @Roche https://t.co/S2iEx5qnr6 pic.twitter.com/c7hSd5bW04
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) June 15, 2021
Visit Tate Britain and see the Cooking Sections art exhibit for yourself ('Salmon – A Red Herring' exhibition on until 31 August):
“Color exposes the global entrails of agribusiness and petro-chemical industries that feed, fill and taint bodies.”@CookingSections @hyperallergic https://t.co/8SAMxQU6Vi
— isolarii (@_isolarii_) June 12, 2021
The Guardian reported in April 2021:
If you like salmon, don't read this: the art duo exposing a booming £1bn market https://t.co/pweB5f0erP @guardian @Ecohustler @FWMowinckel @DSM @Roche @rspcaassured @ciwf
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 4, 2021
"If all this weren’t enough to make you think again about what you’re cooking for dinner, Schwabe and Pascual discovered that industrial fish farmers use a special colour swatch called the SalmoFan to customise their product" https://t.co/pweB5f0erP @DSM @Roche @CookingSections pic.twitter.com/OifjcRKCXv
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 5, 2021
The issue of fake farmed salmon is featured in Netflix's hit documentary 'Seaspiracy'.
"Farmed salmon without colourants being added to its feed would be completely grey," said Corin Smith of Inside Scottish Salmon Feedlots. "To the extent that salmon farmers can acutally select from a colour chart – much like you get when you're painting your house – you can select the pinkness of the salmon that you're going to produce. So it wouldn't be for me to say but it does seem like people are eating grey fish which has been painted pink."
Chris Packham & Megan McCubbin raised the issue in their new book 'Back to Nature' published in December 2020.
"Without the addition of artificial colouring such as Canthaxanthin, 'pharmed' salmon would be a greasy grey in colour – not so appealing – so it's essentially given a fake tan" write @ChrisGPackham & @MeganMcCubbin in Back to Nature https://t.co/XUcA8JtqeT@DSM @Roche @SSPOsays pic.twitter.com/gy2gxPhJwy
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) December 15, 2020
The Guardian reported back in 2003:
"The color of the salmon flesh of is measured with the SalmoFan Roche" says @SaumonLabel "Coloring: 26 minimum on the SalmoFan" demands 'Label Rouge' @SSPOsays https://t.co/VLfQDbl6hA
So why is Tavish Scott so colour blind? @tavishscott @DSM @Roche @ScotlandMowi @scotseafarms pic.twitter.com/J8T5DJNTNl— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 7, 2021
Read more via:
Lying err I mean Lobbying for 'Scottish' Salmon!
Salmon With a Fake Tan – Please Boycott Pharmed Fish!
Red Alert for Label Rouge – Lousy Label Goes Rogue
Ugly in Pink: Cosmetically Challenged Farmed Salmon!
Fancy putting lipstick on a toxic, diseased & 99% foreign-owned 'Scottish' salmon? Then hurry up and apply for the new job as Head of Communications at Scottish Salmon! https://t.co/thprDnE7JX @HamishMacdonell @AthollDuncan @tavishscott @SSPOsays @NatTylerDigital @ScotlandMowi pic.twitter.com/VgaQWxL5j2
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 21, 2021