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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 Reziac on Wednesday October 23 2024, @07:20AM (2 children)
That sounds like the reconstituted stuff (the chicken equivalent of "pink slime") that goes into today's chicken nuggets. Sort of like eating a sponge that's gone to rot.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 3, Informative) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday October 23 2024, @12:30PM (1 child)
Except this was wings, big flabby flesh on weak bones. It wouldn't take much processing to turn it to pink goo. It did start to make a convincing argument for artificial meat, artificial meat could easily be made more appealing.
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(Score: 2) by Reziac on Wednesday October 23 2024, @04:09PM
Yuck. Sounds almost putrified.
I wonder if it might be that because modern meat chickens grow a lot faster, they're harvested younger, so it's still juvenile flesh, which can be ... call it overly tender, to the point of being like jello.
Know what medium today's experiments in artificial meat are grown in? Cow serum. So yummy! :Q
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.