Post by theoldfart2 on Nov 1, 2013 19:24:26 GMT
I was forced to go shopping today.
Well either that or starve.
So I went to Aldi, Iceland, Morrisons and Sainsburys.
What I noticed in the first two was that the fish (frozen) was all in boxes and packets.
Only the last two shops had fish counters.
So it made me think, when a product is boxed and packaged just how much does it stop the consumer thinking about where it came from?
You see the meat section, all in plastic and people have long ago stopped thinking that the five slices of cured Ham were , in fact once a Pig.
I know for a fact that if you showed 99 percent of people a live Porker, and told them that if they wanted the slices of Ham you would have to kill it in front of them , they would say no.
I also believe that if people really knew about the fishing industry as it stands at the moment, with all the dead fish being thrown back, the overfishing, the nonsence with the quotas etc, then they may, just may 'vote with their feet' as it were.
And before people say 'Wont happen' it worked for Battery Hens and battery animals.
Why?
Because of publicity, from the press and Television.
Soooo, perhaps we as concerned Anglers should preasure the TV company's to run a program about what is going on in the fishing industry.
Not to glorify it like some do, but to show the flaws in it as it stands, and what is going to happen very soon if everyone keeps buying their fish in little boxes.
Well either that or starve.
So I went to Aldi, Iceland, Morrisons and Sainsburys.
What I noticed in the first two was that the fish (frozen) was all in boxes and packets.
Only the last two shops had fish counters.
So it made me think, when a product is boxed and packaged just how much does it stop the consumer thinking about where it came from?
You see the meat section, all in plastic and people have long ago stopped thinking that the five slices of cured Ham were , in fact once a Pig.
I know for a fact that if you showed 99 percent of people a live Porker, and told them that if they wanted the slices of Ham you would have to kill it in front of them , they would say no.
I also believe that if people really knew about the fishing industry as it stands at the moment, with all the dead fish being thrown back, the overfishing, the nonsence with the quotas etc, then they may, just may 'vote with their feet' as it were.
And before people say 'Wont happen' it worked for Battery Hens and battery animals.
Why?
Because of publicity, from the press and Television.
Soooo, perhaps we as concerned Anglers should preasure the TV company's to run a program about what is going on in the fishing industry.
Not to glorify it like some do, but to show the flaws in it as it stands, and what is going to happen very soon if everyone keeps buying their fish in little boxes.
