Trouble brewing

the overuse of antibiotics is the only thing that has kept the farms in business. By far and away this is a business and product to avoid.

Miniso

Prefer a bit of cod or haddock with some chips myself.

Big Scotlander

Who owns the fish farms, not Scots I suspect, so any profits will go abroad. In addition, if the mortality rates are as high as claimed, then the actual tax take will not be very high.

Archie Grimm

Correct, owned by Norwegians. And the fish are also Norwegian, Scotland no longer has the stock (Norway won’t allow nonnative salmon in their own farms so as to not pollute the gene pool when they escape, but Scotland doesn’t care about allowing Norwegian stock). Our native stock of salmon and sea trout has been decimated in the past couple of decades; it’s a tragedy which very few people seem to care much about; the loss to many local economies has been enormous, far bigger than people realise for all sorts of reasons.

Odd Bodge Climate change threatens the world with drought, rising sea levels, powerful storms – and a global beer crisis, say researchers.

This news will only compound Brexit hoarding.

Samuelcoldstream

Does Brett Kavanaugh know?

Lesley Newman

Better drink more beer now, then.

Neil Cumming

If most of the barley is used as animal feedstock and we are told we must eat less red meat then there is no problem. We eat less meat so fewer cows so less barley required to feed them so more barley for beer! Problem solved, next...

City Loon