The
Norwegian Food Safety Authority has reported a dramatic rise in sea
louse , a parasite that infects salmon, is causing great concern in
Norway as its populations triple in the crowded fish farms of the
Norwegian fjords over the past year alone. Besides killing the farmed
fish, environmentalists fear that this organism will further decimate
already weakened wild salmon whose numbers have been reduced by half
in the past decades.
Meanwhile,
a 23-year Finnish study has concluded that lethal strains of the
bacteria Columnaris have developed in the confined conditions of ocean
fish farms. This infection destroys the skin, fins, and gills of fish
and is currently the leading cause of their death. With infected farmed
fish that sometimes escape or are let loose by fish farmers who wish to
avoid fines and costly clean-up, wild fish are thus being subjected
to an increasing number of virulent diseases that originate from factory farms.
Norwegian
Food Safety Authority, we appreciate and share your concern for the
well-being of wild fish and ocean life. May we all realize the damaging
nature of meat and fish consumption and opt quickly for the
life-enhancing vegan diet.
Supreme Master Ching Hai has often
spoken of the tolls endured by the Earth’s animal inhabitants,
addressing our need to halt the devastating practice of fishing as
during a November 2008 interview with Ireland’s East Coast Radio FM.
Supreme Master Ching Hai:
We have to stop it. Just stop the fishing. The government has to forbid
fishing because it’s too important to our survival to delay any
further. To stop this destructive practice of fishing, the solution is
the vegan diet, no fishy stuff in our meals. The sea offers us plenty of
better food choices; the wide varieties of super healthy and nutritious
sea plants. We can even live on it forever. We must protect a living
and healthy sea, as it relates to our living and healthy self.
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