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It has been claimed that fish farming is a sustainable source of food that will help us feed the growing global human population while protecting wild fish populations – but this isn’t true.
“Fish farming is not a substitute for catching wild fish out of the ocean,” says Matthew Hayek at New York University. “In fact, it relies on catching wild fish out of the ocean.”
Hayek and his colleagues have shown that the amount of wild fish killed in order to feed farmed fish is between 27 and 307 per cent higher than previous estimates.
Farmed carnivorous fish eat multiple times more weight in wild fish caught from the ocean than is obtained by farming them, says Hayek. For instance, producing a kilogram of salmon may require 4 or 5 kilograms of wild fish.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Monday October 21 2024, @03:26PM
Yeah I hear what you're saying, if the journalist looks at everything thru the lens of "Is it Kosher or not?" then everything that's permissible is not merely permitted but universally religiously required plus non-participants have to publicly display their affirmation of it, vs if its not permissible then its a sin for anyone to participate or even a sin not to denigrate other participants in public as an act of prayer.
So aquaculture is either Kosher and we have to love it, or it is not Kosher and we have to hate it, and there's no in-between with "those people"
Personally I think every large ag facility and every commercial cannery should have an attached aquaculture farm. Best way to dispose of byproducts is to grow more food with them. Maybe if they're very far inland or in a desert they should turn the byproducts into fertilizer for farmers on an individual case basis.
It would seem very foolish to ferment it until there's no oxygen demand then pump it into the overloaded sewers. Its not like banning aquaculture because some journalist says its not Kosher will magically make people stop agriculture and fish canning LOL, there's going to be byproducts regardless, may as well made food from them.