Do you ever feel you have to take action about something you believe in? In this case it’s action against the Scottish Salmon Company. Their proposed action has riled me. I clicked on the link to the campaigning group 38 Degrees, above and below, and gave my opinion:
“Farmed salmon is not something I would go out of my way to eat. Contrary to common perception it is a food loaded with artifical colours and hormones. Who knows its long term effects? This is one reason I would strenuously oppose the expansion of fish farming in Harris.On a social level the Isle of Harris has been our chosen holiday destination for nearly 20 years and it would be criminal, an act of vandalism, to allow this project to go ahead. Yes, from my point of view it’s NIMBYism – someone has to stand up for what they believe in!!”
The Scottish Salmon Company’s proposed action brings to mind the 1983 film Local Hero in which Mr Happer who heads an American oil company sends Mac to Scotland to buy up a remote village where they want to build a refinery. Things don’t go as planned. Mac teams up with Danny, begins negotiations and the locals are keen to get their hands on the loot. Their luck is in. But there’s a flea in the ointment in the style of local hermit Ben Knox who lives in a hut on the crucial beach which he also owns. Happer is more interested in the Northern Lights and Danny in a surreal girl with webbed feet, Marina. Mac is used to a high-tech office in Houston but is forced to negotiate on Ben’s low-tech terms.
Think about it.
Monica Weller
