"Avoid" Scottish salmon warns a new report @SeafoodWatch - salmon farmed in #Scotland rated 'red' due to the use of toxic chemicals, infectious diseases & escapes! @ScotlandSalmon @MowiScotlandLtd @scotseafarms @salmon_scottish @GriegShetland @CookeScotland @LochDuartSalmon pic.twitter.com/YztNAcguoC
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) December 7, 2021
Seafood Watch's new reports on farmed salmon are worth a read - here's the damning "red" report on salmon farming in Scotland published yesterday (6 December 2021):
Download the 138 page report online here
Here's the summary:
The Scottish report includes:
Scottish Salmon is officially the world's worst according to a new asssment @SeafoodWatch - mass mortalities, use of antibiotics & pesticides, imported ova, lice infestation & waste pollution plague @ScotlandSalmon! https://t.co/he3ig8VHa4 @salmon_scottish @scotgov @scotgp pic.twitter.com/NwOFjswphq
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) December 7, 2021
The Global Alliance Against Industrial Aquaculture reported in November 2017:
Farmed salmon from Scotland is ranked as the world's worst - according to recent assessments by Seafood Watch which recommends avoiding farmed salmon from Scotland, Norway, Chile and Atlantic Canada [1]. The red ranking for Scottish farmed salmon - which scored a woeful 2.65 out of 10 - was attributed to poor performance in terms of chemicals, disease and escapes [2].
Read more via The Sunday Times
"It's official - Scottish farmed salmon is now the worst in the world," said Don Staniford, Director of the Global Alliance Against Industrial Aquaculture. "Scottish salmon farming is a global embarrassment and red warning lights can be seen all over the globe. You can put lipstick on a salmon but it's still a farmed salmon loaded with lice, doused on toxic pesticides, contaminated with cancer-causing chemicals and artificially coloured an unnatural red colour. The warning message to consumers is simple: avoid Scottish salmon like the plague and stop eating such a lousy product!"
[Left to right: John Robins, Allan Berry, Roderick O'Sullivan, Don Staniford, Elseanne Staniford and Ewan Kennedy: download high res image online here; photo credit: John Need: http://www.JohnNeed.co.uk]
Download press release in full with Notes to Editors online here
Damning report on #Scottish #salmon by @SeafoodWatch. Scores 2.65 out of 10: disease, escapes, chemicals. @FergusEwingMSP @JoannaBlythman 🤢 pic.twitter.com/y9EiL83Aez
— SST-T (@ScotSalmonTank) November 2, 2017
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