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Exposing the realities of salmon farming in Scotland.

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@salmon_free
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**BREAKING** Oh dear looks like Scottish Salmon Industry has been caught with their pants down. Amazing work from @animal_equality exposing these bastards for what they really are.
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The salmon farmers love to say that Scotland has some of the highest regulations in the world. Even if it was true, lucky for them no one enforces them. Thank you @Feargal_Sharkey for speaking out about SEPA
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Thank you George McGavin for speaking out against salmon farming.
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After getting M&S to commit to not stocking salmon from Fiunary in the Sound of Mull. We now need your help, can you please RT if you want @waitrose , @sainsburys , @Morrisons , @LidlGB , @AldiUK , @Tesco , @asda to make a public statement on if they will sell diesel soaked fish
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Thank you Miriam Margolyes for speaking out against salmon farming.
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Thank you Paul Whitehouse for speaking out against salmon farming.
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Shocking footage coming out of the Outer Hebrides, Salmon farmers have been dumping tons of diseased fish in landfill. Shows you how much they care about Scotland.
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Thank you Sir Brian May for speaking out against the @rspcaassured scheme, rubber stamping animal cruelty can never be ok, lets hope this terrible scheme is dropped soon and the RSPCA can focus on what they were set up to do, which is protecting animals, not abusing them.
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Thank you @Feargal_Sharkey for speaking up for wild salmon. The migrating east coast salmon have to go up through Orkneys & Shetlands where they have consistently the highest lice counts. Please protect the "King of Fish" BOYCOTT SCOTTISH SALMON
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**BREAKING** Scottish Government allowed all the foreign owned salmon farming companies to dump their diseased dead fish in sand dunes in the Outer Hebrides. THIS IS A NATIONAL SCANDAL
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Thank you @georgecmcgavin for speaking out against the environmentally destructive salmon farming industry. “Never eat farmed salmon”
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Thank you @ChrisGPackham for highlighting RSPCA & @SoilAssociation betrayal of animals. The farmed salmon that Jamie Moyes filmed should be enough evidence for the entire industry to close down.
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Surely it’s the time for @RSPCA_official and @SoilAssociation to end their association with the environmental and ecological disaster that is caged salmon farming . . . how can you countenance this ? Video / Jamie Moyes
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**BREAKING** Waitrose have said they will not sell farmed salmon from Fiunary, That's the farm in the Sound of Mull that has a sunken boat leaking fuel into the farm. PLEASE ask your supermarket if they will sell fish from Fiunary. @tesco , @asda , @sainsburys , @LidlGB , @AldiUK
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Thank you @ChrisGPackham for speaking out on the salmon farming land fill site in the Outer Hebrides. For 20 years the foreign owned salmon farming companies have been dumping their diseased dead fish in sand dunes on the island of North Uist.
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What was the most surprising fact on salmon farming in the Netflix doc out today "You are what you eat"? The high fat content & the chemicals stored there should be enough to end the industry overnight. If only people knew!
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Thank you @marksandspencer for not purchasing salmon from Scottish Sea Farms diesel soaked fish from the Sound of Mull. And thanks to everyone who contacted them, M&S would have taken millions of pounds of stock from this farm, not any more.
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Great news, @AldiUK have joined @marksandspencer @sainsburys @Morrisons @waitrose They've all committed to not selling farmed salmon that has been soaked in diesel from Fiunary in Sound of Mull. But nothing yet from @Tesco or @asda Why the silence?
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Thank you Neil Forbes for taking farmed salmon off the table.
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Fantastic news from Ireland, salmon farmers mowi are beaten in court.
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We agree with Paul Whitehouse about the . @SoilAssociation "organic" certification being greenwashing nonsense. They allow a range of deadly chemicals to be poured into lochs & have no maximum levels of mortality or sea lice. Salmon farming can't be done in harmony with nature.
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Thank you Chris Packham for speaking out against salmon farming.
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Unbelievable footage coming from Sound of Mull, fuel still leaking & Scottish Sea Farms are trying to disperse the slick with speed boats!! @ScottishEPA were lying last week when they said the fuel had stopped leaking, it hasn't stopped since it sank on July 4th.
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Thank you @WilliamShatner for speaking out against salmon farming.
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Thank you @TedDanson
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2 months
Pretty much all the supermarkets except @Tesco have confirmed they will not sell diesel soaked farmed salmon from the Sound of Mull. If you need oily fish, Tesco has it…
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Thank you Lord Forsyth of Drumlean for speaking out against salmon farms.
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Thank you @DaleVince for speaking out and exposing the reality of salmon farming. Power to you
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Tavish Scott, the mouthpiece of the entirely foreign owned Scottish salmon farming industry, turns out threatened MSP Mr. Mountain in private! If you watched the committee hearing earlier, you'll spot Tavish doesn't like women having an opinion or the Scottish Government #Bully
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So Wagamama have dropped Salmon sourced from Norway, and now only buy from Scotland. The Scottish salmon farming industry is run mostly by Norwegians…
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2 months
Daily Mail article is 100% correct! Salmon farming has endangered wild salmon almost to the point of extinction. Due to parasites, disease and escapees
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3 months
**BREAKING** @coopuk have said they won't be selling salmon that got soaked in diesel from the farm in the Sound of Mull. They join: M&S, Waitrose, Morrisons, Aldi & Sainsbury's Why are @tesco & @asda so quiet?
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Thank you @PrueLeith for speaking out against salmon farming. If only the Scottish government would listen to sense rather than Scandi billionaires who are behind these monstrosities
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Thank you @DaleVince for exposing the reality of Whiteshore Cockles, dead salmon being dumped on pristine environment in the Outer Hebrides, rubber stamped by the Scottish Gov for the entirely foreign owned Scottish salmon farming industry.
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10 months
Do you agree with @ChrisGPackham that salmon farms need to be clamped down on?
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2 months
THANK YOU To everyone who followed us, shared, liked, commented & acted on our posts over the last year. Massive respect as well to the people filming on farms, you're doing amazing work. We hope in our own small way we are adding to the many voices saying: END SALMON FARMING
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Thank you Leonardo DiCaprio for speaking out against salmon farming again.
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THANK YOU Everyone who helped spread the word about the diesel soaked salmon. 8 major retailers after public pressure have committed not to sell those fish. Only @LidlGB & @IcelandFoods are left!
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Wild Atlantic Salmon are now and endangered species, the impacts of one large escape from a salmon farm can devastate wild genetics. END SALMON FARMING
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Who will sell the diesel soaked salmon from the Sound of Mull? @Tesco are remaining very quiet on this...
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Thank you @bjork for speaking out against salmon farming.
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Ireland if it has any sense will now start planning the end of salmon farms. A blot on the landscape, poisoning their waters.
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What chance does the planet have when politicians like those in Scottish Government are listening to multi nationals instead of the science. Salmon farming is killing the marine environment.
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3 months
Another day, another supermarket promises not to stock salmon from the farm at Fiunary. Please can people ask @sainsburys CEO if he will also commit to not selling diesel soaked salmon: simon.roberts @sainsburys .co.uk
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**BREAKING** Well Done @tesco for finally committing to not selling salmon that have been soaked in diesel in the Sound of Mull. The sunken boat is still underwater, when it floats will the final two high st retailers @IcelandFoods & @LidlGB given them the boot as well?
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Thank you @DaleVince for speaking out against salmon farming and highlighting the recent sunken boat spilling oil next to a salmon farm.
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Only 5% of people polled recognised that all Scottish salmon is farmed. The entirely foreign owned companies use the well known beauty of Scottish lochs to sell a product that is beyond cruel and drenched in chemicals.
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**BREAKING** After the expose's by @AnimalRising of the @rspcaassured scheme, which included multiple welfare breaches on Scottish salmon farms. Sir Brian May has stepped down as Vice President. BRAVO
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**BREAKING** @sainsburys have joined @marksandspencer , @Morrisons & @Waitrose . THEY WILL NOT SELL FARMED SALMON FROM FIUNARY Where are @Tesco , @asda & co-op? Thank you everyone for making contact with these shops, lets get these remaining retailers to commit as well.
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Amazing to see Wimbledon not serving salmon after @WildFishCons highlighting that farmed salmon can never be sustainable.
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Say NO to farmed salmon
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The @rspcaassured scheme is promoted as a way of protecting animals, yet not a single salmon farm has ever been kicked off the scheme. @RSPCA_official seem to have forgotten the founding fathers remit: To put legislation on the books and see it enforced.
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There is still oil coming to the surface & still no one from any Scottish gov department has visited the scene nearly 2 weeks later. Well done Jamie Moyes head of “Abolish Salmon Farming” for exposing this, BRAVO
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Thank you Mr Paxman for speaking out against salmon farming
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Scottish Sea Farms fuel spill next to salmon farm in Sound of Mull means @marksandspencer may soon have diesel soaked salmon on their shelves. Please ask them/RT if they really do plan on selling these fish. tel: 0333 014 8000 Email: retailcustomer.services @marks -and-spencer.com
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The @SoilAssociation should hang it’s head in shame lying to newspapers. Salmon farms with organic status have entire production cycles that aren’t organic, but remain certified for next cycle. AND they allow deltamethrin.
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Wild Atlantic salmon are now an endangered species thanks mostly to salmon farming. Escapes from farms end up breeding with the wild and destroying genetics. The billions of lice each farm emits weekly is also a major problem. #WorldFishMigrationDay
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Farmed salmon are fed wild fish, soya from Brazil and a wide variety of other crops. The farms are so intensive they poison local marine environments with pesticides, poo and parasites. Please boycott farmed salmon
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7 months
Good to see Feargal Sharkey trending after speaking out against river pollution yesterday. BRAVO
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Thank you @Feargal_Sharkey for speaking up for wild salmon. The migrating east coast salmon have to go up through Orkneys & Shetlands where they have consistently the highest lice counts. Please protect the "King of Fish" BOYCOTT SCOTTISH SALMON
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Canada bans salmon farming to protect wild salmon. The Scottish gov prefer to cash in on the extinction of Atlantic salmon and want to expand the number of farms.
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Thank you @DaleVince for speaking out against salmon farming and for your investigation that was published last year into the terribly cruel practice of farming a carnivorous migratory animal in cages.
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9 months
Thank you Jan Leeming for speaking out against farmed salmon.
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4 months
Lethal salmon disease spread by salmon farm boat movements and salmon that have escaped! This industry needs shutting down urgently.
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4 months
Thank you Crispin Rodwell for speaking out against salmon farming, you’re totally correct; It’s filth
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3 months
One of the reasons Atlantic salmon have disappeared from Irish rivers? Yes of course it’s salmon farms, sea lice and a government that was too weak to say no to big business.
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Sunken work boat next to Scottish Sea Farms is still leaking oil into the Sound of Mull and into the salmon farm. 2 weeks after it sunk! Why are the Scottish Government allowing these fish to go into the food chain? video from "Abolish Salmon Farming"
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The huge % of death inside ALL salmon farms should mean that orgs like @rspcaassured & @SoilAssociation have maximum mort levels. Neither does, which shows you exactly how much they care about animal welfare.
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9 months
Thank you Crispin Rodwell for speaking out
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Thank you @bjork for speaking out against the salmon farming industry. We salute you
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Another escape from salmon farms in Ireland. This will destroy local wild Atlantic salmon populations.
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9 months
Could there be anything sadder than a migratory species being trapped in a pen? Please don't buy farmed salmon, it's beyond cruel.
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8 months
Salmon farms are set up the same all over the world, so we should expect wild fish in West Scotland to be also now not fit for human consumption.
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Farmed salmon isn't just killing the poor fish in the pens, it's bad for human health and killing a wide variety of other species.
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8 months
Thank you Neil Forbes for speaking out against the salmon farming industry.
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5 months
Farmed salmon isn't just full of hidden nasty chemicals: antibiotics, mercury, pcbs & pesticides. The fish are also frequently depressed, deaf, obese, covered in parasites & riddled with disease.
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The incredible cruelty of salmon farming is getting so much coverage you have to wonder if the industries days are numbered: Social license
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Thank you to @LeoDiCaprio for speaking out against salmon farming. If you're ever in Scotland drop us a message and we can tell you where to find the high lice farms! (everywhere)
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Thank you Ludo Brockway for including salmon farming in your documentary: Eating our way to extinction.
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4 months
These magnificent creatures belong in the sea, migrating thousands of miles before reproducing. They should never be in cages, swimming in their own filth with parasites & disease. Shame on @RSPCA_official for cashing in on cruelty.
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4 months
**BREAKING ** Listeria in 15 Spanish brands of farmed smoke salmon. Few days ago there was similar outbreak in Israel. How many people have to get sick and possibly die before the general public wakes up to the reality of farmed salmon: IT’S NOT HEALTHY
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5 months
Why don’t salmon farmers want consumers to know their fish are farmed?!
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2 months
Farmed salmon isn't fit for pet food, let alone humans. Please don't feed your furry friends anything with salmon in it, antibiotics, pcb's, mercury, microplastics & god knows what diseases.
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Please share this post with the text: This Christmas, I'm saying NO to farmed salmon, and I'm inviting you to join me! Why? Because friends don't let friends eat the most toxic food on the planet! Farmed salmon carries harmful pollutants and toxins.
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Abigail Penny, the group’s executive director, said. “El Niño is not the culprit, the ill-prepared salmon industry has only itself to blame.”
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The @HighlandCouncil were told by "Organic Sea Harvest" that they'd had "two successful production cycles", this helped them get planning permission for another farm. Turn out that nearly 90% of the farmed salmon died, how is that a success???
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The @rspcaassured scheme is roundly attacked by RSPCA President @ChrisGPackham in an extraordinary expose of dozens of their disgusting certified farms.
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Please RT if you agree with . @Feargal_Sharkey that the Scottish Government needs to do something about Salmon farming
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9 months
Why are wild fish from West Africa being caught and killed to feed farmed salmon? Obscene.
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2 months
Nothing to worry about, the farmed salmon that escaped are all young!! And not many of them!! Hard to believe that escapes of 30,000 salmon won’t affect local wild salmon.
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No other livestock industry in the world operates like salmon farming. If you eat this thinking it’s healthy, think again.
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10 months
With regards salmon farming we completely agree with @WilliamSitwell Take farmed salmon off the table.
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There’s no right way to farm salmon, they should be wild and free.
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17 million salmon died in the farms before harvest. Sea temps rising meaning more jellies & lice. Wild salmon on the verge of extinction. Lochs poisoned with chemicals & industrial litter from salmon farms. Scottish gov turns a blind eye to it all
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Thank you @DaleVince for exposing the Scottish government inability to regulate the salmon farming industry. It’s perverse that the pristine Scottish marine environment that is used in marketing to sell farmed salmon is destroying that environment.
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17.4 million salmon died in the farms before "harvest" in Scottish salmon farms 2023. There is no right way to do the wrong thing.
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The @SoilAssociation have the nerve to campaign against the use of deltamethrin due to its poisonous nature to humans, whilst allowing it to be poured into salmon farms! It can kill lobsters & crabs for many many miles around. Organic salmon is a farce!
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Thank you Darren Broom for speaking out against farmed salmon.
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3 months
**BREAKING** we have confirmation that @asda will not sell diesel soaked salmon from the Sound of Mull. They join a long list of retailers. But still no word from @tesco or @LidlGB Surely they aren't ok with poisoning their customers?? or are they?
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5 months
There’s nothing good about farmed salmon.
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The marine world is being destroyed in Scotland and everywhere else Salmon farming takes place. But don’t worry, because some people will be better off financially and that’s all that matters.
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It's not just salmon & the humans daft enough to eat their poisoned flesh that suffer. Millions of wild animals are being killed directly by salmon farms, from those that are killed to be fed to salmon to the whales caught up in the nets. PLEASE, NEVER EAT FARMED SALMON
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