MailOnline: "Harrods and Fortnum & Mason investigated for 'dressing up cheap factory farmed salmon as luxury wild fish sold for up to £75 per kilo'"

 

 

Don Staniford, the director of Scamon Scotland, told @MailOnline: "Salmon farming is a welfare nightmare and environmental pariah. 'The 'King of Fish' does not leap up waterfalls onto your dinner table - it's reared in cramped cages" @Harrods @Fortnums https://t.co/OLXHv72xVn

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 12, 2024

 

 

 

MailOnline reported (12 March 2024):

 

 

Don Staniford keeps the pressure on the salmon farming industry by investigating the most expensive retailers in London and catching them out.
BRAVOhttps://t.co/6mIBLKLGha pic.twitter.com/fB5bfenBTN

— Free Salmon (@salmon_free) March 12, 2024

 

 

 

The MailOnline article by consumer affairs editor Sean Poulter included:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Feargal Sharkey Tweeted:

 

 

"Harrods and Fortnum & Mason investigated for 'dressing up cheap factory farmed salmon as luxury wild fish sold for up to £75 per kilo."

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear, Harrods and Fortnum & Mason
deceiving their customers whatever next?https://t.co/PMhVnqZoWq

— Feargal Sharkey (@Feargal_Sharkey) March 12, 2024

 

 

 

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World’s Best Busted: Harrods Caught in Salmon Scam!
Video shot inside @Harrods Food Hall - watch how consumer vigilantes stopped illegal labeling of farmed salmon as wild @SevernWye @faroesenews @IntraFish @undercur @salmonfarming1 @fishfarmermag @thefishsite @Rick_Stein pic.twitter.com/v76eqkiaDH

— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) March 5, 2024