Gaslit: The hidden truth about salmon farming in the UK
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It's not Scottish. It's not wild. It's not even pink.
Farmed salmon is sold to us as a health food from glittering lochs and heather-clad hills. Underwater, it's a different story.
Up to 77 million fish are farmed and slaughtered in the UK every year. 52 million of them are Scottish salmon, crammed into underwater cages and circling for life while sea lice graze them down to the blood. Some are blind, with their eyes hanging out. Once the damage is trimmed off, the fillet looks fine.
Then the chemicals go in: pesticides and formaldehyde, a known human carcinogen. They go straight into the loch, because a net is not a wall. Below the cages, nothing survives. The lice spill out and kill the wild salmon too.
So who owns "Scottish" salmon? Two Norwegian companies, one Faroese and one Canadian. They make huge profits, take public money and have plenty of reach in Parliament.
As for the pink, farmed salmon flesh is grey. They feed the fish a pigment and pick the shade off a colour chart. Like Farrow & Ball, but less posh.
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Grey would be unachievable - there would have to be eating charcoal or something. Any salmon flesh you see in pictures that is grey is photoshopped, not a natural picture.
In reality all salmon flesh (farmed or wild) would be whitish with a very light pink tinge. Wild salmon feed on krill or other foods that contain a pigment called 'astaxanthin' which makes their flesh pink or red. Farm salmon are fed the same pigment astaxanthin, and yes, one can increase or decrease the amount of that pigment.
Gaslit: The hidden truth about salmon farming in the UK
Project Slingshot
19,922 views
It's not Scottish. It's not wild. It's not even pink.
Farmed salmon is sold to us as a health food from glittering lochs and heather-clad hills. Underwater, it's a different story.
Up to 77 million fish are farmed and slaughtered in the UK every year. 52 million of them are Scottish salmon, crammed into underwater cages and circling for life while sea lice graze them down to the blood. Some are blind, with their eyes hanging out. Once the damage is trimmed off, the fillet looks fine.
Then the chemicals go in: pesticides and formaldehyde, a known human carcinogen. They go straight into the loch, because a net is not a wall. Below the cages, nothing survives. The lice spill out and kill the wild salmon too.
So who owns "Scottish" salmon? Two Norwegian companies, one Faroese and one Canadian. They make huge profits, take public money and have plenty of reach in Parliament.
As for the pink, farmed salmon flesh is grey. They feed the fish a pigment and pick the shade off a colour chart. Like Farrow & Ball, but less posh.
Featuring Chris Packham, Abigail Penny, Ailsa McLellan, George Monbiot, Jamie Moyes, Dr. Mark Borthwick, Ariane Burgess & Arran Stibe.
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