PETA, Seaspiracy producer lobby to reverse US offshore aquaculture executive order
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May 4, 2021 19:03 BST
Two high-profile seafood sector critics the group PETA and Kip Andersen, producer of the anti-fishing film Seaspiracy have teamed to pressure the administration of US president Joe Biden into reversing an executive order signed by his predecessor that will make it easier to site offshore fish farms in federal waters [.]
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PETA, Seaspiracy producer call on Biden to reverse offshore aquaculture executive order
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People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and “Seaspiracy” producer Kip Andersen are calling on U.S. President Joe Biden to reverse a Trump administration executive order permitting the growth of offshore aquaculture operations and practices.
PETA and Andersen said in a letter to Biden that Executive Order 13921 on Promoting American Seafood Competitiveness and Economic Growth allows for the “the proliferation of damaging and deadly offshore fish-factory farms,” which cause substantial suffering to the farmed fish.
“The last thing our oceans need is more fish-factory farms leaking pestilence, parasites, and pollutants into the water,” PETA President Ingrid Newkirk said in a press release announcing the letter’s deployment. “PETA is asking the president to protect our oceans and everyone who lives in or near them by pulling the plug on this reckless ord
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