Salmon farm faces new cruelty claims as Trump seeks to supersize fish farming

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According to The Guardian’s report, Salmon farm faces new cruelty claims as Trump seeks to supersize fish farming, New undercover video appears to show cruel treatment of salmon at Cooke hatchery amid push for ‘chickenification’ of fish The Trump administration is keen to do to fish what has been done to chickens – mass-produce them on an industrial scale to accelerate the US’s output of seafood. But this “chickenification” of fish may come at a hefty cost to the environment and to the fish themselves, as a new undercover video at one of the country’s leading fish farms has highlighted. Continue reading…

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