Animal Concern Advice Line News 2021
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November 2021
October 2021
October 27th 2021: Just over a month ago John Robins spotted an advert for ready meals supplier Parsley Box describing a meal as containing “Responsibly caught Atlantic salmon ….”. John queried this and, as the salmon was farmed and not wild caught Parsley Box changed the description to “Responsibly sourced …” which is legal but meaningless. Case closed. A few days later John discovered a statement from the Parsley Box CEO claiming “All our fish is sustainably sourced”. Case reopened. Two emails later Parsley Box apologised and admitted their claim that: “All our fish is sustainably sourced” was not correct and would be changed. Case closed. We are currently working to stop the use of the very misleading phrase “Responsibly Sourced” with regards to farmed salmon.
October 18th 2021: Tosh talking Tavish has got old Robins ranting again. Tavish was obviously wearing his rose-tinted monocle when he wrote his gushing article about salmon farming in The Herald. Take a large pinch of salt and read Tavish's tosh here:
September 2021
September 13th 2021: Less than 24 hours after the Old Fart told everyone he was bogging off and leaving us in peace, John Robins has his wooden spoon out again, stirring things up on behalf of the political prisoner pandas at Edinburgh Zoo. After 41 years at the job they are still spelling his name wrong in the newspapers. Read more here:
Link above leads to pressreader.com page. First published as subscriber access article at heraldscotland.com Links checked and working as of September 13th 2021