Animal rights campaigners are urging Michael Gove to stop the construction of the UK’s first fully on-land salmon farm, claiming the decision to give it planning permission was flawed.
Animal Equality says an environmental impact assessment (EIA) should have been carried out before North East Lincolnshire council (NELC) gave the green light to the salmon farm in Cleethorpes, which it says would be the world’s biggest at land or sea.
There’s people opposing a planned land fish farm around me. I don’t get it. Floating fish farms are certainly terrible. The water coming from a land based fish farm is at least monitored, unlike say, a cattle farm which just has mountains of shit washing away uncontrolled. We have a a very large sewage lagoon for our little town that discharges into the lake. The movement and treatment of water seems like it’d be a solved problem.
What’s with the immediate NIMBY against these operations? We’ve got to eat, we can’t keep eating wild caught stuff we’ll eat it all. Farming in the water poisons the local water and wild populations. What’s the plan then? Soylent Green?
Literally beans. The answer is more beans. Step away from the fish, and consume more beans instead.
Legumes suck heavy metal from the dirt too…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0889157523001564#:~:text=However%2C several studies have shown,rules to protect public health
As much as I hate to agree with the weird hippies, farmed salmon contains far more contaminants like heavy metals.
On a quick Google, that seems to depend on who wrote the article. There’s plenty of people claiming that and plenty of people denying. My guess is you get more pollutants from your nonstick frying pan than the fish.
I know plenty of hunter guys who would never buy meat from a store, but store meat is monitored to a much greater degree than wild meat. I don’t know where I stand, but we know what the farmed fish are eating. Whether that’s good or bad I don’t know. I am opposed to knee jerk NIMBYism
These are animal rights activists, they are vegans who oppose any project that involves keeping animals for food. I don’t always disagree with them, but they will always be opposed to any project like this. Where some of us see grey, they only see black and white
Oh, right. Soylent Green it is then.