As the media in Canada prepares to feast on the Cohen Commission's final report due out later today (12.30pm Pacific Standard Time), protestors in the UK sent out a message to the Chinese Government that salmon farming is scary!
China's insatiable appetite is fuelling the expansion of salmon farming in Scotland – putting pressure on the Scottish marine environment. "First minister Alex Salmond crowed that the Scottish fish-farming industry may need to double salmon production to satisfy Chinese demand," wrote Andrew Flitcroft, Editor of Trout & Salmon magazine, last year in The Observer. "The implications of increasing significantly, let alone doubling, farmed salmon production in Scotland are terrifying. Surely it is recklessly irresponsible to contemplate any increase without first rectifying the dire existing problems, particularly the spread of deadly sea lice, caused to juvenile wild salmon and sea trout in the west Highlands and Islands by current production levels. There is little doubt that the situation is set to deteriorate."
Read more via "Scotland's wild salmon face 'calamity' from trade deal with China"
Scottish farmed salmon is certainly suffering from a PR nightmare. The Sunday Herald reported at the weekend (28 October) that the FDA had warned Scottish Sea Farms (owned by the Norwegian companies Leroy & Salmar) "for "serious violations" of food safety rules on pesticides in salmon".
"A processing plant at Connel, in Argyll, which is run by Scottish
Sea Farms, was warned by the FDA in March that it was in breach of US
federal regulations," continued The Sunday Herald
(28 October). "Your firm's aquaculture farmed salmon appear to be
adulterated," the FDA said, "in that the products have been prepared,
packed, or held under conditions whereby they may have been rendered
injurious to health."
The Sunday Herald continued:
"Staff at Scottish Sea Farms site in Connel, left their posts on
October 11 after feeling ill and coughing and vomiting," reported Fish Update
(24 October). "One Scottish Sea Farms employee, who did not wish to be
named, said the sickness had been ongoing for ‘two to three’ weeks."
Read more via "FDA Health Warning for Scottish Farmed Salmon"
Later this Halloween, Justice Bruce Cohen will publish his final report on the decline of wild salmon in the Fraser River. It could be one hell of a fright for the Norwegian-owned salmon farming industry and their fiendish friends in the Canadian Government. Watch the Harper House of Horror Show live via CTV News!
Read more via "Here Comes Cohen: Halloween Horror for Harper?"
In 2007, the Pure Salmon Campaign led a protest in Edinburgh, Scotland, asking consumers to avoid scary Scottish farmed salmon like the plague.
A press release issued by the Pure Salmon Campaign on Halloween 2007 included:
A leaflet handed out to shoppers in Scotland included:
Read more via "Second Annual Global Week of Action Unmasks Scary Truth Behind Farmed Salmon"
Protestors visited Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh Dungeon and Marks & Spencer's on Princes Street.
Fish Update (31 October 2007) reported:
Read more via "Salmon farm campaigners in Halloween protest"
In view of all the toxic and carcinogenic chemicals reported in farmed salmon it is not surprising that the Russians and Chinese are avoiding Norwegian farmed salmon. Following all the horror stories coming out from Norway, Scotland, Canada and Chile, not even Dracula would dare tuck into farmed salmon!
Read more about the horrors of salmon farming via "Fish Farmageddon: The Infectious Salmon Aquacalypse"
Farmed salmon is now so scary it makes you want to scream!
