seafood info Trish OT

[Guest guest]

Thank you, we rarely see anything out there about

seafood or the ocean environment.

Donna

--- bantrymoon wrote:

 

> >>>> For anyone who has done their research on the

> disadvantages of seafood

> please fill me in. I've done lots of research on

> factory farming but not on

> why seafood is harmful. I'm a member of PETA and

> USHS. Any insight you can

> provide would be great! <<<<

>

> I'm vegetarian as a part of being an

> environmentalist, and your question

> is right up my alley. The way we obtain seafood

> these days is horrible

> for marine ecosystems. Here are some examples:

>

> * Shrimp are scraped up, destroying the

> sediments beneath them and

> driving their environments to destruction.

> * Cod, herring and other shoals have been

> decimated for decades now,

> to the point where their entire ecosystems

> have changed. There's

> little reason to believe they'll ever recover

> -- in other words,

> humans have changed these ecosystems forever

> by overharvesting.

> * Many species of shark are on the brink of

> extinction due to

> fishing these animals only for their fins,

> which are cut off the

> live fish --and the maimed sharks are then

> dumped overboard while

> still alive.

>

> I could give many more examples. Seafood harvesting

> is a uniformly

> devastating practice. Sea creatures are marvelous,

> and we're on the fast

> track to shuffle them off this mortal coil.

>

> I'll dig out some great faux tuna salad recipes I

> have that use kelp

> powder for a seafoody taste -- a delicious

> substitute for the harm we're

> doing to the oceans! I'll post that soon.

>

> Cheers,

>

> Trish

>

> --

> Trish Carr

> Knitting page: http://bantrymoon.home.comcast.net/

>

>

>

 

 

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