A New Year's Resolution
BC Salmon Farmers Association, Monday, December 31, 2012
New Year’s Resolutions – the vast majority of us make them. If not in loud, official ways, in quiet personal promises about what we can do to improve ourselves, our relationships and our communities in the year to come.
In 2013, the BC Salmon Farmers Association hopes you’ll eat your words. And by that we mean, we hope you’ll make a resolution about healthy eating that will help those around you as well as yourself.
Commit to eating seafood twice a week and you’ll be making a resolution that is good for you and for British Columbia.
Seafood – wild or farmed, shellfish and finfish, from freshwater and saltwater – provides the body with a healthy, lean protein source. These good-for-you products are sustainable and grow with some of the lowest footprint to the environment possible. They’re good for your brain and for your heart, something we will all pay attention to as we move into another year of our lives.
And there’s a big outward-facing bonus to this resolution as well. Increasing the amount of seafood that you consume is not only good for you, but it’s good for your province. It provides good jobs and stability in coastal and First Nations communities along our beautiful BC Coast. It creates opportunity and offers potential, for the individuals employed by the business and for the province that enables it.
A January 1 resolution can make a real difference in your life – in the quality and length of it. If you make one that tastes as good as increasing your seafood consumption, we think you’ll want to eat your words more often.
Happy 2013!
BC Salmon Farmers Association
