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Letter: Rearing carnivores for meat is senseless

Published 1 November 2023

From John Kitchen, Kettering, Northamptonshire, UK

On the subject of sea-farmed salmon, why do we farm carnivorous fish when, to produce 1 kilogram of them, we require a much greater weight of wild-caught fish? There is really no excuse, either environmental or economic, for doing so (21 October, p 20).

Issue no. 3463 published 4 November 2023

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