Discuss: All You Can Eat

Shrimp is a luxury that we humans can’t afford, no matter where it comes from. Back in the 60’s, Jacques Cousteau said we humans are destroying the oceans. The future of humanity is more important than a luxury food item. It sounds cold hearted to those who make their living from the shrimp industry, but we humans have created the mess we are in and we need to take responsibility for our destructive actions.

That’s a masterful article, really enlightening.  Now, I can’t find the book mentioned in those last few paragraphs: “The Blues of a Revolution.”  Published by a consortium in Honduras.  Anyone have any more publication information on that?  Maybe the subtitle?

This may be old information, but ordering information for that book can be found at this URL: http://www.earthislandprojects.org/news/new_news.cfm?newsID=197

Scott
Orion

Here’s something to chew on:

one pound of shrimp = one ton of CO2.

Read about the new study here:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-tiny-shrimp-giant-carbon-footprint.html

Please - before you give up on eating shrimp entirely - go to a farmers market and see if you have a local grower selling freshwater shrimp. These are tasty, firm, very large, excellent quality and not hugely expensive. If you live in the midwest USA, you will find more and more freshwater shrimp farming going on as a way for farmers to diversify their income. Find them and support them. Learn more at http://www.freshwatershrimpfarming.com.