Welfare Warnings for 'Smoked' Scottish Salmon!

Supermarkets should sell 'smoked' Scottish salmon alongside cigarettes! https://t.co/OSW2WuWxga pic.twitter.com/Q3rRg5fcTZ

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) December 9, 2020

In the run up to Xmas, Scottish Salmon Watch is calling on supermarkets to introduce plain packaging for farmed salmon like the "ugly" new packaging for cigarettes.

Here's how packs of Scottish salmon would look like if retailers were forced to be more honest in their advertising and marketing (view all in a photo gallery online via 'Scottish Scamon').

The message to shoppers this Xmas is to stop to think about the welfare abuse on salmon farms – not to mention the environmental and public health risks of farmed salmon. Stop buying Scottish salmon which people may not realise is ALL farmed in feedlots not caught in the wild – please take the pledge to boycott farmed salmon!

The gruesome photos are sourced from the Scottish Government's Fish Health Inspectorate as well as secret filming on salmon farms.

This is the ugly face of 'Scottish' salmon – 99% of salmon farming production in Scotland is controlled by just six companies (all foreign owned/controlled).

The 'Scottish Scamon' campaign would see the RSPCA Assured logo (which certifies ca. 70% of Scottish salmon as 'welfare friendly') and other discredited and deceptive marketing slogans such as "sustainable", "organic", "Lochmuir" and "responsibly sourced" dropped in favour of graphic images of welfare abuse, health problems, infectious diseases and parasites.

View more graphics online here

Sneak preview of smoking hot new campaign exposing the health threats posed by salmon farming https://t.co/8S6zaUklBK Supermarkets challenged to introduce plain packaging like tobacco @rspcaassured @Tesco @sainsburys @waitrose @asda @marksandspencer @AldiUK @LidlGB @Morrisons pic.twitter.com/OY3xH4yxSM

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 20, 2019

"So-called 'healthy' Scottish salmon is a sham, scam and a consumer con," said Don Staniford, Director of Scottish Salmon Watch. "Peer-reviewed science shows that salmon farming is unhealthy for our global oceans, both wild and farmed fish as well as our own health. Before buying Scottish salmon shoppers should be faced with gruesome photos of diseased and deformed fish."

"Anyone who watches the sickening videos of horrific welfare abuse inside salmon feedlots would seriously think twice before supporting such a toxic and unhealthy industry," continued Staniford. "Instead of being branded as 'RSPCA Assured', 'organic' and 'responsibly sourced', Scottish salmon should be sold in plain packaging like tobacco. Salmon farming should carry Government health warnings in terms of environmental health, animal health and public health."

Please join thousands around the world in taking the pledge not to eat farmed salmon – details online here

Here's Katie Tunn's ten reasons not to eat farmed salmon: