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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 JoeMerchant on Monday October 21 2024, @11:17PM
Realpolitik is: the business owners won't budge even 10% without shrill threats about the end of civilization as we know it, wild belly ache diatribe about how nobody will work anymore when they aren't even offering cost of living increases in their wages. Those apartments are keeping high supply of "affordable housing", which is itself a profit center for the "haves", and a way to keep home ownership further out of reach for the "have nots."
These building zoning regulations aren't developed by the working class, or for the best interest of the working class. They are worked out in joint discussions with government and "community leaders" who have the available time and resources to engage in the process.
Meanwhile, the local working class are holding down two jobs, 70+ hours per week, to afford rent, food and transportation to and from their jobs.
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