Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Mr. Zieg has said that we produce large quantities of organic farmed salmon. It fascinates me to think that a hill lamb which might only be given a fluke or worm dose and otherwise allowed to ramble the hill is not considered organic while a fish that is put in a cage, a totally unnatural environment, is considered organic. No one can try to tell me that organic fish farmers do not use chemicals to control for various diseases or lice. Fish produced on such farms can be labelled as organic but I would take the hill lamb over such a fish any day, in terms of it being a natural product. I will not touch farmed salmon because it is a totally unnatural product. Farmed salmon is kept in a totally confined space and has lots of chemicals thrown in on top of it to enable it to survive. I am really fascinated about how these standards are worked out. What is the definition of an organic salmon? A poached salmon from the west of Ireland is fine but-----