Invitation – Leave our Waters Collective, 1 July 2023
Film night in the north west
The Leave our Waters Collective (LOWCo) a grouping of locals; Indigenous Elders and First Nation activists, actors, artists, tourism, business and corporate people, musicians and performers, passionate children and gifted retirees, film makers and sound recordists, authors and script writers, journalists and environmental activists, committed politicians, pilots and fisherfolk, farmers, sailors, surfers and independent research scientists.
Under the gentle guidance and auspice of Neighbours of Fish Farming, we aim to alert Australian consumers to the truth about toxic finfish aquaculture now expanding around Tasmania, so that they use their buying power to compel this cruel and unhealthy industry to fix itself up. Or preferably leave our waters.
We volunteer our time, skills and expertise to engage with consumers to drive change in this polluting, cruel and unhealthy industry. We rely on others to distribute our films to family and friends, colleagues and social media connections.
We are affiliated with community, scientific and industry groups around Tasmania and are linked to an international network of similar groups, also fighting against the destruction of coasts, communities, and cultures by the industry.
We are advocating for fish welfare, wildlife and oceans protection, human health, future generations.
We are running film nights around Tasmania and later, the east coast of Australia, to ask people to Join us, to link your love of our lifestyles and environments and your skills to ours…we can make a difference.
We already have, as we will show at the north west film night at The Waterfront Wynyard on the 8th of July . 630 pm
Event information: https://fb.me/e/13woLiPtQ?
In the next few months Neighbours of Fish Farms and LOWCo will launch the Australian arm of the Off the Table campaign. A campaign that started in the UK in October last year, The Off the Table campaign calls on chefs and restaurants to take farmed salmon off their menus. The campaign aims to raise awareness of the horrendous impacts on the environment, as well as sustainability and welfare issues linked to the salmon farming industry, in Scotland and beyond
Its aim is to take salmon off the table .
In the words of Gough Whitlam, I would Like to like to say ” It’s time!”
It’s time In Tasmania and Australia to start taking that action here.
It’s time for supermarkets, restaurants and customers to stand up to the salmon farms and say no we will not serve or sell or buy your salmon until things change.
It’s time to stop polluting Tasmanian waters.
It’s time fish farms took time to to value our indigenous culture, the implication of commercial Inshore fin fish farming and the impact on traditional cultural practice
It’s time to your stop cruelty farming.
It’s time to start listening to your communities affected by your farms.
It’s time !!!!
Customers and consumers do not want to buy your unethical dirty grubby fish anymore.
It’s time to say no and keep salmon Off the Table!
Please look out and follow LOWCoau and NOFF for more information coming in the next few weeks as we start to launch the campaign.
Talk to your grocer. Talk to your chefs, tell them how you feel, share our films and stories, ask them to read Toxic.
You may be surprised how many will listen if you just ask and tell them why!
