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Toxic

The Rotting Underbelly of the Tasmanian Salmon Industry

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By: Richard Flanagan
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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.

©2021 Richard Flanagan (P)2021 Penguin Random House Australia Ecosystems & Habitats Environment Nature & Ecology Outdoors & Nature Politics & Government Science Conservation Ecosystem
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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.

An excellent account

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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!

Deeply disturbing

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Wow what an informative story about the farmed salmon industry in Tassie, a real eye opener!

What really goes on with farmed salmon

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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.

Brilliant eye opening look at yet another corrupt industry!

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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

Mind blowing 🤯please make a documentary

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