Green spuds, to eat or not to eat?

[slowhand]

William, believing the media is like believing the tooth fairy will come and save us all from ourselves, which is not conducive to logical sanity. The media of all descriptions, including the ABC can only present what they are told by the heads of their corporations, not the facts coming from those involved in the industry.

I live within sight of a salmon farm, my neighbour works there, as does a number of people I know, including a site manager.
Think about it, does a full grown 1kg salmon only eat 4kg of food during it's couple of years of life, no other animal, fish or bird can survive on only consuming 4 times it's weight in a life time. Media, industry, governments and corporations never tell the truth about their operations or facts, they provide what will make the public happy and consume their chemically saturated junk.

A fanatic is one who refuses to accept reality and desperately clings to past delusionary claims, I look to the future and roll with it. We see the damage and conditions imposed on fish and the environment, not those who live thousand of klms away and have never been near a fish farm.

You really understand the salmon situation when you catch an escaped Atlantic salmon which has been free for a few weeks, they have very light pink flesh and taste quite nice. Not the deep red of dyed fish. It is our native salmon which has the best taste around, nothing comes near it, except flathead and now they are almost gone. especially tiger flathead, haven't caught one of those for years.

Dot, jobs are so scarce down in Tas and it is such a small place and population. No one can afford to say anything, you should see the chook farms here, really pathetic how they treat those poor things. If someone revealed the truth about the salmon or chook industry, they would lose their job instantly and probably end up in jail for revealing company secrets. Could tell you a thing or to about what constitutes a chook you get from the duopoly and where the majority comes from, labelled, as Aus produce.

The salmon farms where I am are just about finished, they have destroyed the environment so badly nothing lives or grows around or under the pens and farms, if you saw the chemicals they use to keep marine growth of the pens, you'd never touch another farmed salmon again. Red tides ar a common occurrence around salmon farms, when that happens they lose lots of fish because all the oxygen is taken out of the water.

That's the reason the government is letting them move their farms to the west coast and into national parks, the current farm areas are so polluted and dead, their fish can't survive. They use tonnes of antibiotics a year to try to keep disease and malignancy under control, but still have to throw out lots of their fish from disfigurement and disease.

Luckily I have Indian runner ducks, which came with the property. There were 23 of them, most crossed with native and others, particularly Muscovy. Have eaten most of the males and was thinking of getting more, but in the last couple of weeks the two males and 8 females have morphed into about 30 with little chicks running everywhere. They nest in the bush so you don't know what they are up to and when the chicks are grown a bit they bring them to the gardens to scavenge.

Built the a pen with a chicken wire covering this morning, yesterday the crows took 3 chicks and are hanging around waiting to get at the others before they get to big. Got duck laid on and soon will have trout as this year, have put 200 fingerings into my dams. Then intend starting an aquaponics system, which a mate already has and gets lovely fresh veggies out of his glass house and fish from his tanks.

Not hard to be come pretty self sufficient in food, with and little bit of work and ingenuity. It's raining here off and on, so have to keep coming inside.

[SteveW]

I don't know how us dumb asses on this forum ever achieved anything!

[BernieQ2]

"I don't know how us dumb asses on this forum ever achieved anything!"
Your meaning Steve?.
Bernie.

[BruceS]

Tongue in cheek Bernie....... tongue in cheek!!
A bit like the tides up in the top of WA.
When it comes in... in it cums!
Us trickles will NEVER reach the shore, let alone flood the plains........ !!
It never rains but it pours!
When it pours it floods... !!
Get it? No? Then let me explain............
.... never mind.... I'm too uneducated!!

Like that Steve?

[SteveW]

Thanks, Bruce. Now I understand.