📢 OUT TODAY: New report exposing how leading retailers are complicit in plundering #Antarctica. They are being fooled by the industry's tactics to portray krill products as sustainable. More: https://t.co/HKYu6VyvDV #FishingTheFeed #WorldKrillDay pic.twitter.com/rDCXc3Bcs8
— Changing Markets Foundation (@ChangingMarkets) August 11, 2022
Here's a press release from Changing Markets (11 August 2022):
"Krill, Baby, Krill" - read a new report @ChangingMarkets on how salmon farming corporations & supermarkets are profiting from plundering Antarctica https://t.co/RX6s37OBqY @AkerBioMarine @LeroySeafood @ScotlandSalmon @asda @sainsburys @Tesco @marksandspencer @CarrefourGroup pic.twitter.com/Mbh0MIumRW
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) August 11, 2022
Download 'Krill, Baby, Krill' online here
The report includes:
Going in for the krill - how supermarkets are plundering Antarctica to profit from cheap & nasty farmed salmon @ChangingMarkets @Umwelthilfe https://t.co/OgMOH2p5E7 @LeroySeafood @SkrettingGroup @Cermaq @GriegShetland @BioMarGroup @AkerBioMarine @CCAMLR1 @CarrefourGroup #Krill pic.twitter.com/spHxCX0oNM
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) August 11, 2022
Exposed: How the $almafia goes in for the krill! @ChangingMarkets @AkerBioMarine @LeroySeafood
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) August 11, 2022
"Leroy reports that 8% of its fishmeal is made up of Antarctic krill" https://t.co/OgMOH27ufx @LidlUS @LidlGB @Tesco @waitrose @CarrefourGroup @BioMarGroup @ScotlandSalmon #Krill pic.twitter.com/qu8nT9yu4v
More information on krill is available from Changing Markets online here
The Ferret reported (11 August 2022):
“By continuing to sell krill-fed farmed salmon & pricey krill oil supplements leading supermarkets are complicit in depleting the main source of food for whales, seals & penguins” @SophieNodzenski @ChangingMarkets @FerretScot https://t.co/YZK5YRVUCN pic.twitter.com/EWTvcKq2QU
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) August 11, 2022
The Scottish salmon farming campaigner, Don Staniford, called for the salmon industry’s “licence to krill” to be immediately revoked. “The use of Antarctic krill in farmed salmon feed is ethically and ecologically bankrupt” @FerretScot https://t.co/YZK5YRVUCN @ChangingMarkets
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) August 11, 2022
Scottish Salmon Watch visited Mowi's fish feed factory at Kyleakin on the Isle of Skye in 2019:
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Killing krill: supermarkets and salmon farms under fire
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Caught Out: How UK retailers are tackling the use of wild fish in their aquaculture supply chains
Off the Menu: The Scottish salmon industry’s failure to deliver sustainable nutrition
Can we have our farmed salmon and eat it too?
Geldof Drinks the Kool-Aid, Not Feeds the World
Kofi's United Nations of Aquaculture
Letter to Kofi Annan: Farming Salmon is Stealing Food from Poor People & Our Oceans
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall tackles farmed salmon feed controversy
The Greed of Feed – the hidden cost of your cheap farmed salmon
A new report @ChangingMarkets - “Krill, baby, krill: The corporations profiting from plundering Antarctica” - concluded that farmed salmon fed by krill are routinely sold by 16 supermarkets in 4 European countries @asda @Tesco @sainsburys @marksandspencer https://t.co/YZK5YRVUCN
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) August 11, 2022