You're probably bored of contrasting happy free-range organic pilot whales with debeaked featherless chickens, so here's another one.

Find someone who has just eaten some farmed salmon or trout, and mention the Norwegian lundehund, a dog bred to crawl into the burrows of the (humble) puffin. Faces will drop. How could anyone eat the charming sea parrot? A farmed fish will eat, along with dye, antibiotics, and for all I know, those fancy blue lights the modification community mount underneath their cars, many times its own weight in sand eels. This may be a problem.

It could be that puffins are a more sustainable resource than farmed fish.

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