[Carry_Okie]

Danson and others have been conducting a vendetta against the commercial fishing industry for decades. Their goal is to eliminate all commercial fishing and particular in the US. One way to do this is by scaring consumers. Last time around it was mercury in tuna.

I have actually caught Tyson Foods funding this kind of activism; yes, they are into industrial aquaculture, big time.

I am not as down on aquaculture as you, but there has to be a way of validating responsible behavior and product quality. I am more into private validation services to provide that function than government inspection.

[PIF]

Dear CO,
Farmed fish has one unspoken objective: the elimination of commercially caught fish in the US - a goal they are near achieving after 45 years of using every lie in the book, every Federally supplied lawyer they could muster, after every trick and piece of propaganda they could muster from big PR firms.

There is no economically way to farm fish that produces the product that Nature does without human intervention. ‘Validation’ by any means is another way for money to change hands ... the bigger the ‘service’, the more money changes hands, and the more political the result achieved.

Don’t doubt me - I’ve been in it since the beginning, and I’ve paid the price in money, and with the lives of friends and loved ones. A price you pay on each time you shovel one of their ‘certified’ products into your mouth.

If one needs a ‘validation’ service to certify some type of food Nature otherwise produces, then that food is a product of money and politics.

Tyson is a late-comer to the game. The Pew Foundation used to be a Danson funder and likely still is. Then there is the whole huge list of wealthy leftist environmental funding sources which are helping you live better through the magic of food chemistry. It is hard to fight ‘non-profit charitable’ organizations and other NGOs with hundreds of millions of dollars to dole out annually and uses Federal Government departments and lawyers to enforce their desires.

One of the other objectives behind fish farming is to not only eliminate commercial fishing, but also to hasten the movement of people into controlled spaces - otherwise known as inner cities - and out of rural uncontrolled spaces (by whatever means necessary).

One day in the not-so-distant future, people will believe, as did old Key Westers, that food comes in packages and cans, made in some distant factory which magically appears on store shelves.

Know who killed your meat and fish, who raised your vegetables and grains.