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Toxic: The Rotting Underbelly of the Tasmanian Salmon Industry | Richard Flanagan
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In a triumph of marketing, the Tasmanian salmon industry has for decades succeeded in presenting itself as worlds best practice and its product as healthy and clean, grown in environmentally pristine conditions. What could be more appealing than the idea of Atlantic salmon sustainably harvested in some of the worlds purest waters? But what are we eating when we eat Tasmanian salmon? Richard Flanagans expos of the salmon farming industry in Tasmania is chilling. In the way that Rachel Carson took on the pesticide industry in her ground-breaking book Silent Spring, Flanagan tears open an industry that is as secretive as its practices are destructive and its product disturbing. From the burning forests of the Amazon to the petrochemicals you arent told about to the endangered species being pushed to extinction you dont know about; from synthetically pink-dyed flesh to seal bombs . . . If you care about what you eat, if you care about the environment, this is a book you need to read. Toxic is set to become a landmark book of the twenty-first century.
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Abailliekaras
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Toxic: The Rotting Underbelly of the Tasmanian Salmon Industry | Richard Flanagan
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A must-read. I can never eat farmed salmon again after reading this book! Despite the grim content it‘s engaging, conversational and a compelling read with Flanagan‘s knack for telling a story. His tone is curious & friendly rather than preachy. I was shocked by the farming methods, damage to the environment (& the fish) loss of species & wider implications of deforestation to support the anchovy feed industry o/S. But also by government failures.

CarolynM It really is a disgrace that it's allowed to go on😡 2y
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ClairesReads
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Toxic: The Rotting Underbelly of the Tasmanian Salmon Industry | Richard Flanagan
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Salmon farming, and perhaps all industrial aquaculture is absolutely cooked. I‘ve been waxing lyrical about the environmental horrors and questionable health data discussed in this book to anyone who will listen for the last week, I‘m that outraged by this. your salmon is not as good for you or as environmentally clean as you think it is; it‘s probably not even really the colour you think it is. I‘ll just stay over here, glad to be a vegetarian.

Texreader I‘ll only eat salmon from Norway where my husband‘s from. I‘ve seen the salmon farming in the fjords and they are being farmed in a most humane setting. Norway heavily regulates its food industry (hence sky-high prices) so I‘m confident in its safety, etc. It also just tastes better than salmon I‘ve had from anywhere else. 3y
ClairesReads @Texreader such a good point and this boom actually mentions how advanced Norway is in terms of their technology and approach to salmon farming! 3y
SamAnne My very first job was in a salmon farm. I will never eat the crap. I work on wild salmon restoration. Salmon farms are built in sensitive estuaries. They are very damaging. They are feedlots in sensitive areas. The confined fish spread diseases to the native/wild fisheries around them. And they are pumped with antibiotics. Thank you for saying no to farmed salmon! So glad it‘s on the way to getting outlawed in Puget Sound! 3y
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SamAnne Respectfully, the Norway salmon farms are a huge threat to their struggling wild salmon runs.. (edited) 3y
ClairesReads @SamAnne thanks for adding to my understanding! I think the argument made in the book was that one element of the problems with the Tasmanian industry was better performed in Norway- so it makes a lot of sense that you are suggesting that Norway still has many problems. What I found most interesting was, as you say, what Farmed salmon are fed, and the broader environmental implications of that. 3y
SamAnne @ClairesReads like so many others, I strive to eat ethically and fall off the bandwagon regularly. Hello late night shitty burger…. There is no such thing as environmentally sound farm raised salmon. Sustainably wild caught is the way to go. Yes, you will pay more for it. Any Littens who want tips on what questions to ask when ordering salmon reach out samannemace@gmail.com (edited) 3y
SamAnne @ClairesReads what infuriates me are high end restaurants that pass off farm raised salmon as wild, or sustainable and charge 30 plus bucks a plate for it. If it is described as Atlantic salmon, or generically “Northwest salmon” or “B.C. Salmon” it is farm raised. It is the shitty burger not worth 30 bucks a plate. And salmon farms hurt the truly sustainable small scale fishermen. (edited) 3y
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