PM should ban triploid (genetically modified) ‘frankenfish’ from human consumption.

UK charity Green Britain Foundation has released film footage showing many severely deformed and suffering salmon, which it says it filmed in pens in Macquarie Harbour early this month. The horrifying film challenges PM Albanese’s special protection of the very same fish pens.

It is known that genetically-modified or triploid salmon have been grown in the harbour – a reason the RSPCA has never certified fish from there. It is also the very salmon farming that Albanese and Dutton got together to protect from environmental laws last month.

Triploid Atlantic salmon are bred to grow and fatten at unnatural rates but suffer increased spinal deformities, blindness and other abnormalities.

Bob Brown Foundation is calling on the state and federal governments to affirm or deny the use of triploids and for Premier Rockliff to allow independent investigators inside the factory fish farms in Macquarie Harbour to examine if they contain deformed fish.

“The images of deformed salmon struggling to swim would be more evidence of the horror show that is Tasmanian factory farmed salmon,” said Alistair Allan, BBF’s Antarctica and Marine Campaigner.

“These images are horrific. Unless disproved, they will unleash a fresh wave of revulsion against factory-bred Atlantic salmon from the Australian public.”

Green Britain Foundation media release:

https://dalevince.com/news/food/green-britain-foundation-exposes-diseased-salmon-in-tasmania/