"Scottish salmon is the best in the world" claims SSPO - WTF?!

'Opinion' is defined as: "a view or judgement formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge" https://t.co/NgwDWnVQXN
For example: "Scottish salmon is the best in the world" is opinion not based on fact or knowledge! @tavishscott @rspcaassured @SSPOsays pic.twitter.com/sCq7w7dbQD

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 19, 2020

"Scottish salmon is the best in the world," claims @tavishscott in today's 'Opinion' @heraldscotland name-checking @MowiScotlandLtd on Rum & @salmon_scottish on Lewis https://t.co/8GX2GDa2ZF
Maybe you should fact-check? @SSPOsays
The camera never lies (unlike Scottish Salmon)! pic.twitter.com/PdvUfvEfX4

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 19, 2020

An 'Opinion' piece by Tavish Scott, Chairman of the Norwegian err I mean 'Scottish' Salmon Producers Organisation (SSPO), published in today's Herald newspaper (19 November 2020) does not stand close scrutiny.

Tavish's 'Opinion' piece (read it in full online here) includes:

Does these photographs – published by the Scottish Government's Fish Health Inspectorate (despite legal objections from salmon farmers) – look like "the best salmon in the world" or a "premium product"?

Photos slipped out last month @marinescotland provide yet more damning evidence of welfare abuse on salmon farms – please boycott Scottish salmon! https://t.co/bp2h3Rylag @salmon_scottish @Try_Lochlander @Folketrygdfond @GreenerScotland @scotgp @coopuk @rspcaassured @SSPCA_Mike pic.twitter.com/Sngg29WYTp

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) November 4, 2020

Ongoing Welfare Abuse on RSPCA Assured Salmon Farms – Why No Prosecutions? https://t.co/MJPgaijAAy @MairiGougeon @APHAgovuk @rspcaassured @kamesfishfarm @MowiScotlandLtd @scotseafarms @salmon_scottish @GriegShetland @Animallawyersuk @onekindtweet @ProfCMDwyer @LynneUSneddon pic.twitter.com/AIQHyRkb0q

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) October 19, 2020

Edie Bowles @Animallawyersuk said the dossier, compiled by Don Staniford, a critic of salmon farming, indicated “systemic and obvious” pain & suffering that could justify legal action against @scotgov @MairiGougeon @SSPOsays https://t.co/ZuzAis8gEr @SundayTimesScot @ciwf @scotgp pic.twitter.com/RPVIAL3KlS

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) February 2, 2020

RSPCA Assured Mowi Plagued by Mass Mortalities & Infectious Diseases https://t.co/vxZTjE37qA Boycott disease-ridden Scottish salmon treated with antibiotics @MowiScotlandLtd @rspcaassured @sainsburys @LidlGB @AldiUK Enteric Redmouth Disease (Yersiniosis) is like the Black Death! pic.twitter.com/Rry8Y5vFvq

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) May 27, 2020

Be Sure to Boycott RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon! https://t.co/61yIroIUBp Shocking new photos published of Mowi's disease-ridden North Shore feedlot in Loch Erisort @marinescotland @MowiScotlandLtd "visibly moribund fish" & "significant lice damage" @sainsburys @rspcaassured pic.twitter.com/gjLaeqpcFz

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) April 7, 2020

Perhaps the SSPO's new Chairman should open his eyes?