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04/05/2021

Salmon With a Fake Tan - Please Boycott Pharmed Fish!

 

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PETA reported (26 March 2021):

 

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The SalmoFan featured in an article published in The Guardian (4 April 2021):

 

 

 

SalmoFan Guardian 4 April 2021

 

 



 

The issue of fake farmed salmon is featured in Netflix's new hit documentary 'Seaspiracy'.

 

Seaspiracy clip #3 Canthaxanthin

 

"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."

 

Seaspiracy Corin Smith

 

Seaspiracy clip #4 SalmoFan

 

 

 

Chris Packham & Megan McCubbin raised the issue in their new book 'Back to Nature' published in December 2020:

 

 

 

 

 

The Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation - the lobby group representing salmon farms in Scotland - appears completely colour blind when it comes to advocating the use of synthetic and artificial colourings in salmon feed.  Here's the SSPO's rose-tinted perspective on artificial colourings in pharmed salmon. 

 

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The use of Canthaxanthin has been controversial for decades.   Back in 2001, an article headlined 'Pink Poison' published by The Daily Mail lambasted the use of artificial colourings by salmon farmers.  

 

Daily Mail Canthaxanthin 2001

 

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The Guardian reported in 2003:

 

Canthaxanthin Guardian 2003

 

 

Various lawsuits in the United States have forced retailers to comply with labelling laws on 'color added' via Astaxanthin and Canthaxanthin artificial colourings.

 

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Scottish Salmon Watch thinks consumers in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world - not just in the United States - should be notified whether artificial colourings have been added to farmed salmon.

 

Scottish Scamon film-strip with SalmoFan

 

 

Fish Farmer magazine reported in 2003 quoting Scottish Quality Salmon (since re-named the Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation) who said "it is no secret that astaxanthin and canthaxanthin are included in salmon feed":

 

Canthanthin lawsuit #5

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch is investigating whether European labelling laws force retailers to label whether farmed salmon have been raised with artificial colourings.

 

Canthanthin lawsuit #6

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Here's an excerpt from 'Silent Spring of the Sea' published in the 2004 book 'A Stain Upon the Sea':

 

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Betty Ford cartoon

 

 

Read more via a report from 2012: "Ugly in Pink: Cosmetically Challenged Farmed Salmon!"

 

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Time magazine reported in 2017:

 

Canthaxanthin Time 2017

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In 2017, I reported via "Red Alert for Label Rouge - Lousy Label Goes Rogue":

 

 

 

 

 

Watch George Monbiot's passionate attack against the "orange jelly-like stuff" marketed as 'Scottish' salmon online here

 

 

 

 

Lad Bible reported (6 April 2021):

 

 

 

 

Read more via 'Scottish Scamon':

 

Scottish Scamon poster with film strip low res

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

#11 Farmed Salmon is Artificially Coloured

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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