Salmon Farming Kills – Global Health
Warning Issued on Farmed Salmon
by GAAIA
‘
Salmon Farming Kills’
employs similar graphic imagery to the ‘Smoking Kills’ campaigns
against Big Tobacco and warns of the dangers of salmon farming. Next
month (February), GAAIA will issue a new report on salmon - ‘
Smoke on the Water, Cancer on the Coast’ - followed by reports on shrimp, tuna and GE fish.
“Salmon farming kills around the world and should carry a global
health warning,” said Don Staniford, global coordinator for GAAIA in
British Columbia.
“As good global citizens we need to face the fact
that salmon farming seriously damages human health, the health of our
global ocean and the health of wild fish.
Salmon farming is spreading
in Norway, Chile, Scotland, Canada, Ireland, the Faroes, the United
States, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and now in Russia like a malignant
cancer on our coasts. Quit salmon farming now and help stub out farmed
salmon from the face of our precious planet.”
“Expensive PR campaigns promoting farmed salmon as ‘safe’ and
‘sustainable’ serve only to raise the alarm that salmon farms harm,”
said Kurt Oddekalv, leader of Norges Miljøvernforbund (Green Warriors of
Norway) in Norway.
“Salmon farmers are shooting themselves in the foot
by denying peer-reviewed scientific evidence detailing human health and
environment risks. Here in Norway the industry is on death row with
infectious diseases, sea lice infestations, chemical resistance, escapes
and depleted fish feed issues looming as the last nails in the
coffin.”
“By draining our Southeast Pacific oceans of wild fish for feed,
Norwegian-owned salmon farmers are robbing Pedro to pay John and
stealing fish out of the mouths of Latin Americans,” said Juan Carlos
Cardenas, a veterinary doctor and Director of Ecoceanos in Chile.
“This
lethal industry has been responsible for the deaths of divers and sixty
four workers as well as hundreds of sea lions and other marine birds
and mammals. The bad practices of Norwegian companies operating here in
Chile provoked the most important sanitary, environmental and social
crisis in the south Chilean coastal regions where 20,000 jobs have been
destroyed during the last three years. The industry has blood on their
hands and ought to hang their heads in shame.”
“If the fish farmers want to play the same game as the cigarette
manufacturers did for many years and live in denial they’re welcome to
it but it’s not going to give rise to any solutions,” said Canadian
biologist Otto Langer (quoted in the documentary film Farmed Salmon Exposed: The Global Reach of the Norwegian salmon farming industrywhich was screened in Paris during last year’s Seafood Summit and at film festivals around the world).
“I would never feed a child farmed salmon,” said Canadian scientist David Suzuki (as quoted in The Toronto Star). “It’s poison!"
GAAIA is an international network dedicated to advancing environmentally
and socially responsible aquaculture. GAAIA recognizes that salmon,
shrimp, tuna and 'Frankenfish' farming jeopardizes sustainable and safe
seafood production.
Press Releases
Press Release issued by the Global Alliance Against Industrial Aquaculture:
www.gaaia.org
For more details on GAAIA please visit: www.gaaia.org
For more details on ‘Salmon Farming Kills’ including photos please visit: http://www.gaaia.org/salmon-farming-kills
Contacts:
Don Staniford, global coordinator for the Global Alliance Against Industrial Aquaculture (GAAIA): dstaniford@gaaia.org (+1 604 787 3390 in Vancouver; and +44 7502 487613 – in UK)
Juan Carlos Cardenas, Director of Ecoceanos: +56-2-2053855 (in Chile)
Kurt Oddekalv, Leader of Norges Miljøvernforbund (Green Warriors of Norway): +47 90 89 22 68 and +47 917 04 361 (in Norway)
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