I watch the progs. over the last 2 nights, basically, a chef over here went on trawlers fishing, and due to EU quotas, he was not allowed to keep and put to market about half the fish he was catching, most of them normal fish we eat like cod, pollock, haddock, and many other fish. (some were in the 20-40 lb size!!!)
Bear in mind, we are talking millions of tonnes of british fish being thrown away each year.
Hugh Fearney-Whittingstall then went to put forward the Discard (as its called) problem/waste to the EU commisioners and minister for fishing form respective eU countries, the bloody sSpanish and Dutch ministers said WHAT HE WA SAYING WAS FALSE, FECKING BULLSHIT, ITS WAS CAUGHT ON FILM, NOT ONCE, BUT SEVERAL TIMES.
The EU is basically one big joke, a gravy train for people who know nothing of how to run things.
£116billion is the bill to run the EU, £116billion too much.
Agreed stool, its a disgrace and a travesty, millions of tonnes of food a year thrown overboard due to wrong fish being caught.
In the second program, which was about Salmon farming and tinned fish, the jist is this:
for every 1kg of Salmon, it takes 3kg of caught,dead processes fish made into pellets to feed it. Thats fucked.
TESCO, our largest retailer by a mile puts on its tins its fish is caught ethically and with no harm caused to ther fish, yet there was Greenpeace interviewing some Ghanaian fishermen catch the fish for the tins, who said that turtles, sharks and dolphins were being caught, killed and dumped overbaord also, from 3000m long nets.
This world is SOOO fucked up sometimes.