by Loki » Sun 24 Apr 2011, 00:28:49
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Loki', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Shaved Monkey', 'O')mega 3 is the reason we need fish in our diet
Humans certainly don't NEED fish in our diet to live long healthy lives. That's simply untrue.
Small-scale aquaculture interests me, I could see it being quite viable in some areas. But giant commercial fish farms are monstrosities. I suggest those who suggest we just switch to farmed fish do a bit of research on the ecological impact of large-scale fish farming. Start with farmed Atlantic salmon and tell me it's a good, desirable thing.
It's good desirable thing.
Okey dokey, Pstarr, “behind the Redwood Curtain,” finds salmon CAFOs run by transnational corporations to be a perfectly acceptable industry, both good and desirable. Despite the massive pollution these fish factories create, despite the impact on native fish stocks, despite over use of antibiotics and other undesirable chemicals to keep these overcrowded fish alive in such unnatural conditions, despite the fact that it takes pounds of wild-caught fish (also shipped around the world) to create one pound of farmed salmon, despite the transfer of power/wealth from small fishermen to transnational corporations, despite the introduction of GM salmon, despite the massive amount of petroleum required to produce and distribute this product around the planet.
It's a perfectly rational system to fish out irrevelant “bait fish” stocks like anchovy and capelin so we can provide First World Consumers with shit salmon from the other side of the planet, died pink to appear “natural,” flash frozen, packaged in ample amounts of plastic and cardboard, jetted around the world, and delivered Just-In-Time by a big diesel truck to a big box store a convenient 20 mile drive from your house for a mere $1.99/lb. Yep, nothing irrational about that food system at all. I stand corrected. I'm sure it'll survive peak oil just fine.
A garden will make your rations go further.