Toxic
The Rotting Underbelly of the Tasmanian Salmon Industry
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Richard Flanagan
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Richard Flanagan
About this listen
In a triumph of marketing, the Tasmanian salmon industry has for decades succeeded in presenting itself as world's best practice and its product as healthy and clean, grown in environmentally pristine conditions. What could be more appealing than the idea of Atlantic salmon sustainably harvested in some of the world's purest waters?
But what are we eating when we eat Tasmanian salmon?
Richard Flanagan's expose of the salmon farming industry in Tasmania is chilling. In the way that Rachel Carson took on the pesticide industry in her ground-breaking book Silent Spring, Flanagan tears open an industry that is as secretive as its practices are destructive and its product disturbing.
From the burning forests of the Amazon to the petrochemicals you aren't told about to the endangered species being pushed to extinction you don't know about; from synthetically pink-dyed flesh to seal bombs . . . If you care about what you eat, if you care about the environment, this is a book you need to read.
Toxic is set to become a landmark book of the twenty-first century.
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- Anonymous User
- 24-08-2021
Well researched and horrifying expose
An extremely well written and damning perspective into the shady and often overlooked evils of the salmon industry. 5 stars and highly recommend !!
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- Mullins64
- 25-04-2022
Great book
This book has certainly given me a new perspective on this industry. I had done some research on the subject out of interest but had no real idea about the damage being caused to the pristine waters of Tasmania. Definitely worth reading.
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- Marc Percival
- 27-11-2021
Just saved me from a very unhealthy repast
Ugh! How dare they! At this point I'll need another 20 lives to get even with the latest enclave of environmental and culinary criminals. Put me off the exploitative polluters I had some hope would be a sustainable future industry. Excellent but infuriating...where are my skin thickeners, blood thinners and relaxants.
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- Red Owl
- 02-02-2023
Troubling
So well written, personal and with stories of others
Sadly this is essential reading for salmon eaters
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- Ben kerwin
- 28-03-2023
New anxiety unlocked 🔓
It seems every time you turn your head these days there's another reason to be ashamed of the human race. It was a hard listen but necessary for sure. Farmed salmon is off our family shopping list.
I can't even begin to imagine the anger the residents of Tasmania must feel towards their government officials. If you care for the future of this planet this is just another story that everybody needs to know about.
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- Kaitlin Edin
- 02-01-2022
An excellent account
This is non fiction at its best. The topic is truly appalling. I'll never EVER buy Tasmanian 'Atlanic' salmon again. It's an account of such miserable environmental terrorism by the State of Tasmania and the corporate fisheries to be breathtaking. Suffocating on all accounts, but utterly fascinating.
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- Faye
- 25-09-2021
Deeply disturbing
One cannot unhear terrible truths!
My firmly held beliefs as a consumer of Tasmanian salmon have been shaken to the point of crashing and leaving me with an enormous sense of shame, frustration and bewilderment.
How has this happened? How has the industry gotten away with it? Apart from no longer buying the product what can I do about it?
I don’t live in Tasmania but pray that caring and concerned Tasmanians can stay the fight to stop the ecological disaster from continuing.
May this book become a best seller as ALL Australians should know what the salmon industry is up to.
Thank you Richard Flanagan for doing the detailed research and for putting pen to paper. Bravo!
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- Anonymous User
- 12-12-2021
What really goes on with farmed salmon
Wow what an informative story about the farmed salmon industry in Tassie, a real eye opener!
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- Annaliesa Rose
- 22-04-2023
Brilliant eye opening look at yet another corrupt industry!
This book Toxic is a brilliantly written and read book illustrating how corrupt an industry the Tasmanian Salmon industry actually is. Thankyou for exposing this industry and letting us know all this resourceful information.
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- Manny
- 24-05-2023
Mind blowing 🤯please make a documentary
So eye opening, more people need to know this, make a documentary to get more people to see this at a mass scale. This industry needs to be cleaned up and fixed. Not only is it corrupt but also it is killing the environment.
Get it all over the socials to expose what is happening
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