A Message from Tasmania: ‘If you care about what you eat, be careful what you buy.’
A campaign to protect some of Australia’s most pristine waterways from industrial destruction is being launched nationally at the Brunswick Picture House on Friday evening at a live music and video event.
UnCage Our Seas alerts Australian consumers that Atlantic salmon bred in cages in Tasmania are not the healthy, clean, green, sustainable product that’s marketed.
Former ABC foreign correspondent and Four Corners reporter, Peter George, who now leads campaigning group Neighbours of Fish Farming, says this issue affects all Australians because there are giant foreign companies destroying some amazing waterways and marine life with effluent that pours out of giant underwater cages 24 hours a day. ‘We know many people in northern NSW care about what they eat, and our marine life, and we want them to help spread our catch-cry “Eating Salmon, Killing Tasmania”.’
‘Caged salmon are fed on pellets containing battery hen beaks, feet, guts and feathers so they’re fattier than wild salmon with more bad trans fats than the companies admit.
‘Tests have found antibiotic resistance in the fish from treatments of diseased cages as well as a chemical banned from human foods in Europe because of cancer fears.’
Polls show 72 per cent of Tasmanians want the industry out of coastal waters because of the damage they do.
George says that when mainland consumers realise that Tasmanian Atlantic salmon is definitely not a health food but a caged, industrial product with serious human health issues, then they’ll stop buying it. ‘That’s a message that will get through to the foreign salmon barons who pillage our waterways and take profits overseas without paying tax.’
Peter will host the Brunswick Picture House launch along with his son Paul A George, from Tijuana Cartel at a high energy music and video celebration of the UnCage Our Seas campaign.
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