| well thats a battle I'm actively involved in, but I'll try and not write a novel.
Here are a few good reasons though:
- 1lb of farmed salmon takes 5lbs of feed that is literally vacuumed off the ocean floor and should be feed for wild fish that desperately need it.
- 200,000 farmed salmon creates the same amount of sewage as 62,000 homes do. Except it all gets deposited in an area half the size of a hockey rink and isn't treated.
- Farms use massive amounts of antibiotics to control the rampant disease the fecal matter creates.
- They are a massive breeding ground for sea lice, which attached to juvenile wild salmon, which have no defenses.
- Areas with salmon farms have seen local wild populations of wild salmon plummet to all time historical lows. Some areas are predicting complete extinction within 15 years if the farms are not removed.
- Salmon farms have been banned from almost all of Europe and now take advantage of loose laws(Canada) or poor economies(Argentina).
the list goes on and on and on, so forget gold - if you want to save salmon buy wild fish. |