Increasing number of farms being quietly detached from the RSPCA Assured scheme, which is an indicator of these issues being widespread. Why the RSPCA don’t drop the entire company when it’s evident that quite a few of their farms operate in this way – I don’t know.
We are a major exporter of salmon – these stories and this information need to reach European, Asian and US markets in order for real change to be demanded and enacted.
As someone who worked in a salmon and trout production factory back in the 90’s I will not eat salmon anymore.
The physical defects I saw as a filleter put me off these fish for life. Spinal defects, holes eaten in flesh by sea lice, and other gross shit were too many to mention.
Not even getting started on the environmental damage done by these places.
On the plus side we got paid very well and it was one of the best jobs I ever had.
Still would not east farmed salmon ever again
Problem is, people don’t care and they’re not willing to sacrifice their taste buds to spare the suffering of these beings unfortunately. There are people, even people in this sub, who still genuinely believe that fish have no capacity for suffering or are incapable of feeling pain.
They really just do not give a shit, and it’s precisely because of these hordes that demand will never drop, supply will continue, and the cruelty persists.Â
In a previous life I was a commercial diver, I spent a year working on fish farms in Orkney and it was just as bad then (20 year ago) some of the farms were nice and healthy but there were plenty that were terrible. the ones owned by Waitrose were the worst at the time.
Scottish farmed Salmon is truly the worst of all worlds:
– Terrible welfare standards
– Produces a net loss of food
– Serious local environmental damage
– Antibiotic use fueling Antibiotic resistance
– Contributes to the overfishing of our oceans
– South American Soy/deforestation
– Huge food miles
– Contributing to the loss of an iconic native species (Atlantic Salmon)
“Animals bred for profit and slaughter have a terrible life.”
I don’t think we can be surprised.
Farms suck for sure, but what’s shown in that footage isn’t to dissimilar to what’s seen with wild salmon especially at the end of their spawning cycle.
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Increasing number of farms being quietly detached from the RSPCA Assured scheme, which is an indicator of these issues being widespread. Why the RSPCA don’t drop the entire company when it’s evident that quite a few of their farms operate in this way – I don’t know.
We are a major exporter of salmon – these stories and this information need to reach European, Asian and US markets in order for real change to be demanded and enacted.
As someone who worked in a salmon and trout production factory back in the 90’s I will not eat salmon anymore.
The physical defects I saw as a filleter put me off these fish for life. Spinal defects, holes eaten in flesh by sea lice, and other gross shit were too many to mention.
Not even getting started on the environmental damage done by these places.
On the plus side we got paid very well and it was one of the best jobs I ever had.
Still would not east farmed salmon ever again
Problem is, people don’t care and they’re not willing to sacrifice their taste buds to spare the suffering of these beings unfortunately. There are people, even people in this sub, who still genuinely believe that fish have no capacity for suffering or are incapable of feeling pain.
They really just do not give a shit, and it’s precisely because of these hordes that demand will never drop, supply will continue, and the cruelty persists.Â
In a previous life I was a commercial diver, I spent a year working on fish farms in Orkney and it was just as bad then (20 year ago) some of the farms were nice and healthy but there were plenty that were terrible. the ones owned by Waitrose were the worst at the time.
Scottish farmed Salmon is truly the worst of all worlds:
– Terrible welfare standards
– Produces a net loss of food
– Serious local environmental damage
– Antibiotic use fueling Antibiotic resistance
– Contributes to the overfishing of our oceans
– South American Soy/deforestation
– Huge food miles
– Contributing to the loss of an iconic native species (Atlantic Salmon)
“Animals bred for profit and slaughter have a terrible life.”
I don’t think we can be surprised.
Farms suck for sure, but what’s shown in that footage isn’t to dissimilar to what’s seen with wild salmon especially at the end of their spawning cycle.
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