Govt rejects 'Times' report on CP prawns

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Govt rejects 'Times' report on CP prawns

Published: 7 Mar 2013 at 00.00
Newspaper section: News

The government yesterday rejected a report by Britain's Sunday Times that giant Thai prawn exporter CP Foods rears its prawns with a technique that is destroying vast swathes of the ocean's ecosystem.

Quoting the celebrity cook Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, the Sunday Times reported on Feb 24 in an article entitled "Our taste for prawns is killing the sea" that a number of British supermarkets are selling the prawns reared using the highly destructive method.

Tesco, Morrisons and the Co-op have admitted buying prawns from CP Foods, owned by Thai billionaire Dhanin Chearavanont, that feeds the shellfish with "trash fish" _ sea creatures that cannot be sold at market, the Sunday Times' report said.

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rod266
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Discussion 7 : 07 Mar 2013 at 16.027
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The man represents the government , what has this got to do with the government?
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Discussion 6 : 07 Mar 2013 at 10.056
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I saw the associated TV program (Hugh's fish fight UK channel 4). Hugh F-W was invited onto a trawler operating close to the shore in South Thailand in what was deemed a conservation area and using nets so tightly that not even the smallest infant baby fish escaped. The trawler operator was very open and shameless about what he was catching and there was not an enforcement boat in sight. They followed the process through to the dried fish meal.
Maybe Mr Niwat Sutemecchaiku should watch the program and then maybe he can revise his position...maybe....
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Discussion 5 : 07 Mar 2013 at 09.355
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Government too quick off the mark with their defense of a billionaire for it to be nothing but suspicious.
The explanation given leaves many escape routes open also.
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Discussion 4 : 07 Mar 2013 at 07.574
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I don't know about CP, but what I see from general prawn farming all over the country I think they are destroying the environment, or at least contaminating the land around it with salt. Ask any farmer nearby any prawn farm and they will not stop talking. The Government should be wise to keep quiet about the report in the British paper and start investigating.
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Discussion 3 : 07 Mar 2013 at 05.303
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Think I know who I'd believe. I remember the PM's brother lying about bird flu in thai chickens....as Yingluck says- she thinks like her brother. . Hmm CP were involved in that too -one of the Chearavanont family members was a deputy minster in Thaksins Govt and issued a few lame denials about a cover up.
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Discussion 2 : 07 Mar 2013 at 03.102
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How come the government is so involved in explaining this issue to the world instead of the CP people? Who’s the expert in this area? Given the close tides between the mega-corporation and government, can we honestly believe that the so called ban on fine-mesh nets within 5.4kms from the shore will rigorously be enforced to protect sea lives?
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Discussion 1 : 07 Mar 2013 at 02.111
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Trashed fish that trash the sea will not be tolerated. trashes above the sea is okayed . some that clogged the drains/khlongs are also okayed.
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