What do you do when a 2mm beetle threatens to eat a lot of trees? Well, if you’re Alberta, you fight it with fire. Notice all the war-related language in the article.

Farm-raised” is slowly becoming synonym nowadays for purity, health, and a connection to the land. However, in the case of farm-raised fish, not-so-much. As an aside, I was in Alaska this summer and there appears to be quite the vitriolic hate-on for aquacultured Salmon. They really hate that it’s such an industry in British Columbia.