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TV presenter and UK RSPCA president Chris Packham has followed up on his earlier appraisal of restaurant chain Wagamama. In an open letter Packham and two leading conservation groups criticize Wagamama's reliance on GlobalGAP certification.
An independent study has found that large profit-driven corporates in the industrial livestock and meat-processing sector world wide wield significant economic and political influence, with close relationships between governments and industry, and undue influence on policy-making.
A recent study by the European Food Safety Authority has determined that the prevalence of vibrio bacteria in seafood will increase globally due to climate change and antimicrobial resistance. It will be more common in areas where rivers meet the sea. The bacteria has forced retailers in the E.U. to issue recalls and can cause deaths if eaten via...
More than 65% of Iceland's population opposes open-net fish farming, according to a new Gallup survey which revealed broad opposition across various demographics, with consistent disapproval noted nationwide.
Leading food and agribusiness bank Rabobank reports that biological issues for the last year have plagued aquaculture, particularly in Norway, with high mortality levels and significant drops in the proportion of superior grade fish. Increase in the use of mechanical sea lice treatments in the warmer months damage the mucosal layers of the salmon...
UK RSPCA President Chris Packham has sensationally threatened to quit in an animal welfare row, after salmon were filmed swimming around without tails and with chunks missing from their bodies. Stomach-churning footage - filmed covertly at a farm run by a major seafood company supplying UK supermarkets - shows animals with bare bones and pink flesh...
Respected broadcaster and UK RSPCA president Chris Packham has taken to Instagram to call on UK Japanese restaurant chain Wagamama to take farmed salmon Off the Table. He wrote that:
There are many indications that plastic pipes transporting salmon feed pellets under pressure can be a significant source of pollution. The Norwegian Society for Nature Conservation believes that more than three hundred tonnes of microplastics each year go straight to the sea through wear and tear on feed pipes at Norwegian fish farms, and have...
