Post by wnion on Jul 31, 2006 7:19:27 GMT -1
Written By: Bruce Sandison
On Date: 29/7/2006
Unlike farmed salmon, swimmers dont defecate in the water
The Salmon Farm Protest Group has lodged an official complaint with the Advertising Standards Authority about an advert placed in The Times (22/07/06) by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and Freedom Foods.
In the advert readers are asked, “How many farm animals do you know with their own Olympic-sized swimming pool,” and claims that Freedom Food accredited farm salmon “get plenty of room to swim around, because of lower stocking densities.
But the advert doesnt say how Freedom Food arrived at this conclusion, nor does it make clear what this lower stocking density is. SFPG chairman Bruce Sandison said, To claim that fish get plenty of room to swim around, in this imagined Olympic-sized pool, without giving the numbers of fish actually swimming around in it, is misleading and inappropriate.
Sandison commented, The volume of water in an Olympic-sized swimming pool is generally 1875m³. Even at organic salmon stocking densities the imagined pool would hold 18,750 kg weight of fish. If the average weight of each fish is 1.5kg the pool would contain 12,300 individual fish. Or, to put it another way, 6 to 7 fish for every cubic metre of water in the pool.
In human terms, if the pool was stocked with swimmers at a similar density and each swimmer had an average weight of about 60kg this would mean that there were 313 people in the pool at the same time. This could be in breach of Health & Safety regulations and, unlike farmed salmon, humans dont defecate in the water, he said.
For more information contact: Bruce Sandison on tel: 01847611274
Hysbackie, Tongue, by Lairg, Sutherland IV27 4XJ, Scotland
Tel: 01847 611274; Fax: 01847 611262; email: bruce@hysbackie.freeserve.co.uk
A company registered in Scotland, No.240223
On Date: 29/7/2006
Unlike farmed salmon, swimmers dont defecate in the water
The Salmon Farm Protest Group has lodged an official complaint with the Advertising Standards Authority about an advert placed in The Times (22/07/06) by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and Freedom Foods.
In the advert readers are asked, “How many farm animals do you know with their own Olympic-sized swimming pool,” and claims that Freedom Food accredited farm salmon “get plenty of room to swim around, because of lower stocking densities.
But the advert doesnt say how Freedom Food arrived at this conclusion, nor does it make clear what this lower stocking density is. SFPG chairman Bruce Sandison said, To claim that fish get plenty of room to swim around, in this imagined Olympic-sized pool, without giving the numbers of fish actually swimming around in it, is misleading and inappropriate.
Sandison commented, The volume of water in an Olympic-sized swimming pool is generally 1875m³. Even at organic salmon stocking densities the imagined pool would hold 18,750 kg weight of fish. If the average weight of each fish is 1.5kg the pool would contain 12,300 individual fish. Or, to put it another way, 6 to 7 fish for every cubic metre of water in the pool.
In human terms, if the pool was stocked with swimmers at a similar density and each swimmer had an average weight of about 60kg this would mean that there were 313 people in the pool at the same time. This could be in breach of Health & Safety regulations and, unlike farmed salmon, humans dont defecate in the water, he said.
For more information contact: Bruce Sandison on tel: 01847611274
Hysbackie, Tongue, by Lairg, Sutherland IV27 4XJ, Scotland
Tel: 01847 611274; Fax: 01847 611262; email: bruce@hysbackie.freeserve.co.uk
A company registered in Scotland, No.240223