This is the height of arrogance
\nTo take a wild game fish
\nThat fights its way upstream to breed
\nThat salmon some relish
\nThis mighty marvellous miracle
\nand fascinating soul
\nMen decide to farm it
\nAnd somehow to control<\/p>\n
Its most important urges
\nInstinctively inbred
\nTo cram it, into a great cage
\nWhere thousands then are fed
\nHuge numbers of them side by side
\nAttract sea lice of course
\nWhy search the bloody ocean wide
\nWhen the tour de force<\/p>\n
Is mosey over to that place
\nwhere thousands strut their stuff
\nAnd hang around consuming them
\nyou just can’t get enough
\nAnd then disease and parasites
\nHave their own field day
\nThe salmon are contained
\nwithin this soup, they can’t get away<\/p>\n
For man has acted ignorantly
\nHas locked his charges where
\nHe can and does control their lives
\nAnd bring them to despair
\nFeed them on unnatural coloured crap
\nIntroduce the pharmaceuticals
\nAnd let them sap
\nThe energy and the spirit
\nout of these brave fish
\nWhose flesh will have a rosy hue
\nReady for the dish<\/p>\n
Defending that investment
\nin the controlled way
\nCompletely changing how the salmon
\nlives from day to day
\nThat instinctive spark
\nThat generates, its willingness to go
\nBack to where it began its life
\nTo the actual spot you know<\/p>\n
This intriguing spectacle is what
\neach Salmon does
\nIt is infact an integral part
\nof what gives it that buzz
\nBut Men replace that process
\nWith the prison in the sea
\nCramming more and more inside
\nThan there should ever be<\/p>\n
Unthinking of the freedom
\nthis mighty beast had known
\nUncaring of its enviroment
\nHow steadily it had grown
\nBut however well its imprisoned
\nIt did not occur to man
\nThat the urge for freedom
\nfar exceeds whatever man did plan<\/p>\n
And so a lot escape this purgatory
\nand will mate
\nWith all the wild creative ones
\nWho could control their fate
\nAnd by this inimical process
\nWe are left, to berate
\nThe arrogance a fore thought
\nFor this greed they employed
\nWhich may see the end of the truly wild
\nWhich is hard now to avoid<\/p>\n
Aquaculture introduced
\nto control
\nthe natural flow
\nThe organic movement also
\nsprang to life we know
\nInjected charitable gifts
\nInto the pot to help the cause
\nCreating brand new standards
\nAnd receiving some applause<\/p>\n
But the public do not realise
\nFor most, sadly don’t care
\nThe fish won’t get a look in
\nThey dont go anywhere
\nWhen vital sparks within them
\nTell them its time to go
\nThe organic mob
\nmove in and they are dead
\nBefore they know<\/p>\n
Packed and processed
\nCertified, and sold at a premium price
\nBut as to nature and the natural world
\nThis movement wasn’t nice
\nAnd of course there will be comebacks
\nWhen every salmon born
\nIs inseminated artificially
\nNone heed what I warn<\/p>\n
Too star struck by the margins
\nAnd the market that does grow
\nTo remember the wild salmon
\nWe have violated so
\nEven those sweet organic fish
\nare in place
\nThe need a of applications pesticides
\nto chase
\nAway the dreaded sea lice
\nthat otherwise might grace
\nThe bodies of these precious souls
\nWho roam the salty sea
\nFed to standards, that is true
\nBut they do not satisfy me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Two wrongs do not make a right 1. polluting the environment 2. Salmon Farming both wrongs because ignorance and arrogance march hand in hand here to the bankers.The outcome none of the parties thinks deeply enough about the salmon or the environment it and we live in. Continue reading