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Animal rights group urges halt to ‘monstrous’ Cleethorpes salmon farm (www.theguardian.com)
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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.

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[–] Peppycito 9 points 7 months ago (3 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Literally beans. The answer is more beans. Step away from the fish, and consume more beans instead.

[–] Peppycito 1 points 7 months ago

Legumes suck heavy metal from the dirt too...

However, several studies have shown that dangerous metals like lead, cadmium and mercury can build up in these legumes, which is deleterious for human health. Second, finding dangerous metals in legumes and figuring out how dangerous they are can help change food safety policies and rules to protect public health.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0889157523001564#:~:text=However%2C%20several%20studies%20have%20shown,rules%20to%20protect%20public%20health

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

As much as I hate to agree with the weird hippies, farmed salmon contains far more contaminants like heavy metals.

[–] Peppycito 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Peppycito 1 points 7 months ago

Oh, right. Soylent Green it is then.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

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.

While government guidance says each case should be judged on its merits, it states that the indicative threshold for an EIA to be appropriate is where a farm is designed to produce more than 100 tonnes of fish a year.

The Aquacultured Seafood Ltd development aims to produce 5,000 tonnes of fish a year, but was deemed “unlikely to have significant effects on the environment by virtue of factors such as its nature, size or location”.

A legal letter, sent to Gove and NELC by Advocates for Animals on behalf of the charity, says: “Due to the scale of the project, the uniqueness of it, the location and risks to the local wildlife, the impact of any malfunction, or indeed any unforeseen circumstances, has the potential to be huge and complex.

The charity’s executive director, Abigail Penny, said: “Given the abundant uncertainties and obvious risks, it is scandalous that the committee has allowed the application to get this far, let alone to have given it the green light.

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