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Phoenix61

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1. I refuse to eat farmed fish. The enclosures they use

Reply to hatrack (Original post)

Thu Mar 5, 2026, 08:05 AM

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are on par with the feed lots for cattle. The fish are extremely stressed so they are more susceptible to disease which threatens wild fish. IMHO it should be banned. If they want to farm fish they need to do it on land in tanks.

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I refuse to eat farmed fish. The enclosures they use Phoenix61 Thursday #1

To say nothing of massive outbreaks of salmon lice then spreading to wild populations from farms . . . hatrack Thursday #2