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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 26, @03:55PM
Doesn't seem so clear cut to me. How many children are the atheists having and how many children are the religious having?
https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2015/05/12/chapter-3-demographic-profiles-of-religious-groups/pr_15-05-12_rls_chapter3-07-png/ [pewresearch.org]
The religious tend to have more hope and faith, and more children.
See also:
https://web.archive.org/web/20081227133251/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/matthew_parris/article5400568.ece [archive.org]
https://www.russellmoore.com/2019/12/16/atheists-dont-lie-to-your-children/ [russellmoore.com]
Of course, the flip side is more have children when they shouldn't. But prehistorically, from an evolutionary perspective just popping out kids and hoping for the best is a better strategy in the long term than not popping out kids because there isn't much hope. The former does lead to more suffering though, but the suffering is often more tolerable when you have religion... 😉