Download in full as a PDF online here
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Media Backgrounder: The Welfare Case Against the Thermolicer, Hydrolicer & Optilicer (March 2020)
Download letters from Dr Lynne Sneddon of the University of Liverpool to the Scottish Government, RSPCA, Animal Welfare Commission and the Scottish Parliament's Cross-Party Group on Animal Welfare:
Letter dated 7 January 2020 from Dr Lynne Sneddon to the Scottish Government
Letter dated 29 January 2020 from Dr Lynne Sneddon to the Scottish Government
More background on welfare abuse on salmon farms via:
Watch a video of a Hydrolicer in action from Corin Smith at Inside Scottish Salmon Feedlots:
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The National: "Scottish salmon farming tools 'break animal welfare rules'"
Sunday Times: "RSPCA paid over £500,000 to back Scottish salmon industry"
Open letter to the RSPCA calls for an end to the certification of Scottish salmon
Sunday Times: "Scientist hits out at RSPCA for backing Scottish salmon farms"
RSPCA defends involvement in Scottish salmon farming
New Veterinary Science Papers Turn Up Heat on the Thermolicer
The Herald: "Scottish Government is urged to ban ‘painful’ salmon delicing tech"
Video Nasty: Thermolicer – the Heated Torture Chamber for Scottish Salmon
Welfare Abuse at Scottish Salmon Farms – Why No Legal Enforcement Or Prosecutions?
Authorities mull over ban on thermal delousing
"Campaign group to file legal challenge against Scottish salmon farms’ use of Thermolicer"
Daily Mail: "Calls to ban salmon farms' lice treatment"
Letter to Scottish Ministers re. Welfare Abuses at Scottish Salmon Farms
Letter to the Cross-Party Group on Animal Welfare: Thermoliced to death
Study questions fish welfare in thermal delousing
Vet warns of head injury risk to fish during delousing
Thousands of fish poached alive in lice treatment bungle that could hit Christmas salmon prices
Fish farm firm kills 175000 salmon by accident
Revealed: how Scottish fish farm cooked thousands of salmon alive
