Cooking Sections: How do we design a more responsible food industry?

On a bright white stage in a black room at Tate Britain, the frail, white silhouettes of creatures - a penguin, a flamingo, a dog, a shrimp and a fish - fade eerily into the backdrop, accompanied by the quiet, expectant gargle of water. It's a haunting sight, devoid of color, movement or life, frozen in a desolate seascape. As we reflect on how it came to this, a voice begins to speak. Its script reveals that this scene is a metaphorical representation of the exploitation of salmon through industrial farming in Scotland. Farmed salmon - which are denied a natural diet of krill and shrimp - are deprived of astaxanthin, which gives their flesh its pink or reddish color and protects them from solar radiation and stress.