Ocean Rebellion

Soil Association it would be better if your members voted to stop certifying farmed salmon at your AGM today. We popped along to deliver a letter. 7th November 2024 Dear Ms Browning and Mr Robinson, We are writing on the occasion of the Soil Association’s Annual General Meeting to ask that you desist at once from certifying farmed salmon as organic. We appreciate that there is a great deal of devil in the detail around finfish aquaculture certification, but at Ocean Rebellion we take the view that there can be no such thing as organic farmed salmon. This position is not unique to us, nor is it new. We believe many people within your own organisation hold this view, which was expressed succinctly by Lawrence Woodward, former chairman of the Soil Association's standards committee, when he said in 2006 "Salmon farming in cages has nothing at all to do with organic principles”. In January of this year a coalition of NGOs led by WildFish repeated the demand that the Soil Association cease to certify salmon farms. The NGOs made clear that your tightened standards are still insufficient to justify the labels of sustainable and organic in a number of regards, including: - Mortality rates - Use of chemicals toxic to marine life - Sea lice infestation - Rates of escape, and thus hybridisation with wild salmon Ocean Rebellion is fundamentally opposed to salmon farming, which we regard as an exemplar of industrial and unsustainable fishing practices. It is an industry driven by profit motives, with ambitious targets for growth, which is extractive of natural resources, and directly harmful to life. It is estimated that in a given year more fish is fed to Scottish farmed salmon than is eaten by the UK human population. At the same time mortality rates in salmon farms appear to be increasing, in part due to rising sea temperatures. This industry is the very opposite of sustainable, by any definition. Meanwhile it will not have escaped your attention that the wild Atlantic Salmon is now on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Wild salmon are almost magical creatures, capable of both mutation and long-range migration. They will soon be extinct from UK rivers. Caged farming increases the pressure on wild salmon; as the numbers of farmed salmon grow, so the numbers of wild salmon decline, and will soon reach vanishing point. The Soil Association organic logo has been a valuable tool in leading the UK public and producers towards more sustainable farming practices. It is being badly undermined by your insistence on certifying farmed salmon. We look forward to hearing that you have seen sense, and cut off this line of revenue for once and for all. Yours sincerely, Ocean Rebellion Soil Association, don’t be soiled by salmon farming, remove your salmon farm certifications today or our salmon will be visiting again soon. @feedbackorg @ChrisGPackham #Salmon #SalmonFarming #SalmonCruelty #SoiledBySalmon Photos: Simon Holliday

?? Don't miss this jaw dropping extravaganza for the opening of Ocean Rebellion's first ever exhibition. ?? The opening will feature a programme of unmissable interventions: ?? Saturday 19 October ? 14:00:?Cutting the red tape!?The exhibition will be opened by Royale art lover and critic Lady Can'Hardly. The good Lady will introduce the audience to her unique lifestyle, tastes and (frankly) odd opinions. Expect to be amused. 16:00:?Earthaluyah!?Reverand Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir?will be dropping in to share some big NYC Ocean love and heartfelt Earth loving preaching. Join them on a musical parade around the block where they will help shoppers make the right retail choice. The exhibition will feature iconic photos from Ocean Rebellion's groundbreaking performances at UN Conferences and Government agencies, plus original posters, installations, banners and printed ephemera from their first four years of over?80 news grabbing actions. Throughout the exhibition there will be props from previous actions to wear and affordable art to purchase. ?? While your eyes look, deep sea extraordinaire?DJ Benthos?will enter your ears with a subsonic domain of meandering sequences, hypnotic pulse and deep undertones. Event is free with an option to support the work we do. Ocean Rebellion Exhibition Including original posters, installations, banners and iconic photographs by the artists behind Ocean Rebellion. Saturday 19 October - Sunday 27 October See link for individual events and timings https://lnkd.in/evBZqkgN

Yesterday, we targeted a Tesco near Piccadilly Circus in London for selling cruel, unsustainable John West #tuna. This famous brand is owned by Thai Union Group PCL. who for years have been sourcing yellowfin tuna from Spanish fisheries that slaughter turtles, sharks & whales. As we ripped apart a giant John West tuna can in front of Tesco we found dead bycatch merfolk inside. All around the giant can lay evidence of toxic drifting Fish Aggregating Devices (dFADs) that had ensnared the poor merfolk before they were cruelly processed by Thai Union Group PCL. The giant can was labelled JOHN WEST, TUNA CHUMPS. Tuna Chumps refers to the methods John West has been using to hoodwink their loyal customers; pretending they are creating a sustainable product while deliberately using cruelly caught #tuna in all their products. Please read more about our #tuna exploits at Tesco in Piccadilly Circus, here: https://lnkd.in/dhqBJ2-f

Join us at Thenga Cafe on Saturday, February 3, 2024, at 19:00 GMT for an inspiring evening of talks by some of the artists behind Ocean Rebellion’s artistic direct actions and expert guests.? Entry includes wonderful vegan snacks by the Thenga Café kitchen. Drinks will be available to purchase at a reasonable price. Throughout the event there will be live garment screen printing, props from previous actions to wear and posters, badges and patches to buy. Tickets via Eventbrite: https://lnkd.in/euYqPmYM ??Charles M Vella, S. Staines, XR NL Photos