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Environment & Energy

GliderGuider

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4. I can't help but think that eating fish when alternative protein is available is ecocide.

Reply to Viva_La_Revolution (Reply #3)

Fri May 25, 2012, 10:42 AM

May 2012

Catching wild fish depletes the ocean biome, while open-water acquaculture contaminates the surrounding water and thus threatens other species.

Aquaculture in inland tanks is probably OK from an ecological perspective, but not everybody wants to just eat tilapia and catfish...

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I can't help but think that eating fish when alternative protein is available is ecocide. GliderGuider May 2012 #4

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