Alongside animal rights group Project Slingshot, English naturalist and TV presenter Chris Packham has launched an eight-week campaign against Scottish farmed salmon.
In Scotland 100 per cent of native Salmon is factory farmed, prompting the campaign over welfare concerns.
This is Project Slingshot’s third campaign, having previously called out the gassing of pigs in factory farms and “Frankenchickens” bred to grow unnaturally fast.
They utilise London Underground advertisements to reach millions of commuters.
The Packham-led campaign highlights flesh eating lice, treatment of disease with toxic chemicals like formaldehyde, and the synthesised pigment the salmon are fed to “dye them pink, so they don’t die grey.”
In particular, the campaign has targeted supermarket M&S, who have an over 20-year relationship with Scottish Sea Farms. Packham has said: “M&S should use its influence to help end factory-farmed salmon.
“It’s a toxic industry – don’t buy it.”
M&S have responded to the campaign: “M&S salmon is farmed responsibly to the highest welfare standards, supporting an industry that offers thousands of UK jobs.”
One student commented: “If M&S is using factory farmed salmon, I just don’t see where these welfare standards are.”
Another told The Student: “There are so many secrets across animal agriculture and the fishing industry […] it makes me nervous about what I am eating.”
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