New fish farming method provides virtually guilt-free seafood
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Posted By Small Footprint Mama - Thu, Aug 13 2009 at 12:39 AM ESTCorn fed fish? NO!
Feed Corn to Fish?! Corn is not a fish's natural food and corn is also an extremely eco-UNfriendly crop, most of it is GMO, and it consumes water and soil fertility like nobody's business. Corn and soymeal are the reason that eating meat in this country is so unsustainable (try grass-fed on rangeland!). Feeding fish bugs (like maybe the pests from organic farms), like one poster mentioned, is a much better idea.
Posted By Anonymous - Thu, Jul 16 2009 at 4:37 PM ESTWhere do I sign up?!
I was thrilled to read this article. I confess we barely eat fish any more due to our concerns about over-fishing and unhealthy farming. Where can we purchase fish raised in this much greener environment?
Posted By erasure - Wed, Jul 15 2009 at 1:39 PM ESTTry to keep your knees under control...
Yes, fish feel pain. Yes, it sucks to be eaten. But you know what? That is nature. Omnivores and carnivores are part of the natural balance. If it's not us, a larger fish or bird or mammal will eat that fish. I can't stand seeing a baby bird get plucked off by a hawk, but it happens. And I'm not going to be angry and righteous at the hawk about it.
This is not to say that the way we are *harvesting* these animals is at all OK. We are too smart for our own good; we found more.... More
Posted By Humane Beings - Tue, Jul 14 2009 at 12:01 PM ESTThere's Nothing Guilt-Free About Eating Animals
I appreciate efforts to go "green." However, if you are taking the life of another being when you don't have to, there's nothing ethical or guilt-free about that. Animals (including fish) feel pain and distress, and they certainly don't want to be eaten.
A vegan diet that also strives to be organic, local, seasonal, etc., is much closer to guilt-free than eating animals will ever be.
Posted By human being - Tue, Jul 14 2009 at 4:06 PM ESTActually, fish don't "want" anything
"Wanting" is a human emotion. Fish don't "want" anything. You're anthropomorphizing them.
Posted By Anonymous - Tue, Jul 14 2009 at 4:51 PM EST---------------------
Actually, animals do have wants, one of the most significant being pain avoidance. If animals (incl humans) didn't have this feature, we'd be doing many activities that could result in injury and possibly death...and that's no way to safeguard the survival of the the species, now is it?
All animals -- incl. fish -- feel pain. Sorry, but I don't consider a fish that experienced oxygen deprivation or a hook in its mouth to be "guilt free"
Posted By Drey - Sat, Jul 11 2009 at 3:13 PM ESTFeed 'em bugs!
Since we can grow insects very cheaply and in mass amounts, and they are something a carnivorous animal can live on, why don't we start feeding them to the fish? Y'know, like bug meal? Except for the ick factor, we humans could add them to our own diet, and some societies still consider them food and delicacies.
Posted By Grey Garvin - Fri, Jul 10 2009 at 10:48 AM ESTThis quote....
from your article: "Green fish, as good as it gets”, says Yonathon Zohar, director of the Center of Marine Biotechnology at UMBI. “Clean, environmentally friendly, sushi-quality fish, delivered to the restaurant a few hours after harvesting." gives me great hope...thank god that innovation is still alive in our world...it gives me optimism for the green future
Posted By Momof2 - Fri, Jul 10 2009 at 10:37 AM ESTThis is how we're going to have to think....
We're so destructive towards the earth, we have to think smart on every topic...even with this, will there be any fish left in 30 years? in 10 years? now?
Posted By Katy Rank Lev - Tue, Jul 07 2009 at 2:56 PM ESTwhat would grescoe say?
i'm definitely curious to read more about this, especially the ways in which the fish waste are managed. i'd also love to see what teras grescoe thinks about this new method!


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Corn Abundance to Fish Protein
Feed the fish corn! They are much more efficient at converting grain to protein than cattle of pigs, and the methane fis produce can be trapped, and used as fuel, fuel we sorely need! The "Poop" will serve as a n excellent fertilizer and top-soil builder too! The "Offal" from the harvest can be added to the fertilizer, or all, poop, offal, can be bio-gassed to run cars, or for cooking gas as in India! America is catching up in many ways to the third world efficiencies, and will soon overcome.... More