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Interview with Marianne Cufone
Marianne Cufone is the Fish Program Director for Food & Water Watch. One of the main fish program campaigns examines catch share programs—or catch and trade—and the impact they have on our food supply, fishing communities and the environment. Read more…
The 2010 Smart Seafood Guide is the only current guide that addresses sustainability, food safety and socio-economic impact of different kinds of seafood. Its release comes at a critical time, when the safety of seafood from the Gulf is in question.
All right, seafood lovers… pay attention. Most of you, on average, eat approximately 16 pounds of seafood each year, 4 of which is shrimp. Most of you want safe, sustainable seafood, and you’re probably aware that there are many things to consider.
Consumers need a resource that addresses factors, such as sustainability, food safety, and the socio-economic impact of many different kinds of seafood; the 2010 Smart Seafood Guide will help you navigate those waters. Read more…
This week, Congress is voting on the critically important and extremely timely “Consolidated Land, Energy, and Aquatic Resources Act of 2009,” also called the CLEAR Act. The stated purpose of the act was to promote clean energy while heightening safety standards surrounding offshore drilling and other problematic industries in the Gulf. Unfortunately, several important provisions, which would have furthered these stated goals, were dropped from the bill. Read more…
If you enjoy the taste of sardines, eating them can now be considered a political statement. By choosing to eat these small “pelagic” inhabitants of the lower end of the food chain, one is rejecting farmed fish, which often consume large quantities of the world’s sardines, anchovies, herring, and other small, wild fish, in the form of aquaculture feed from factory fish farms. Perhaps, calling sardine consumption activism is a bit exaggerated, but it might help explain the delicate relationship between ocean aquaculture and overall global food security. Read more…
[This is the first in a three-part series exposing the truth about several American companies that have been depicted as leaders of environmental sustainability.]
Late last year, the New York Times ran an op-ed about “corporate sustainability” that shocked me with a handful of egregiously misleading depictions of three major American companies. The author, Jared Diamond, is a respected historian and author of several books. But Diamond’s article is all about how some businesses can be “among the world’s strongest positive forces for environmental sustainability.” The three examples he cites include Wal-Mart, Coca-Cola, and Chevron. Really? Read more…
We live in a world where image is everything. We human beings are a prideful species and, while we certainly mean well most of the time, we have a habit of obsessing over self-improvement, often to the point of overdoing it. And, now we’ve started over-doing it to fish. Read more…
The Cabbage Hill Farm Foundation is dedicated to the preservation of historic farm animals, aquaponics and the practice of sustainable agriculture techniques.
Alliance for Sustainable Aquaculture (ASA) is a collaborative group of researchers, business owners, non-profit organizations and interested members of the public working to further Recirculating Aquaculture Systems (RAS) in the United States through research, education, legislative work and advocacy. We believe that RAS, closed-looped and biosecure aquaculture operations, are the best option to meet our countrys need for a clean, green, sustainable, healthy seafood source to supplement our wild fisheries.
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Alliance for Sustainable Aquaculture (ASA) is a collaborative group of researchers, business owners, non-profit organizations and interested members of the public working to further Recirculating Aquaculture Systems (RAS) in the United States through research, education, legislative work and advocacy. We believe that RAS, closed-looped and biosecure aquaculture operations, are the best option to meet our countrys need for a clean, green, sustainable, healthy seafood source to supplement our wild fisheries.
Category: Science & Technology
Uploaded by: GoodFoodnH2O
Hosted: youtube
It was exciting to see a recent article in the New York Times that featured sustainable seafood – in this case, wild Gulf-caught shrimp. Shrimp is the most popular seafood item in the U.S., but many are unaware of the ecological effects and consumer health implications of imported farm-raised shrimp. Read more…
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For several years now, proposed certification of one fishery after another has been causing international controversy for the Marine Stewardship Council. Likewise, one company after another have signed on to source farmed shrimp from Global Aquaculture Alliance’s Best Aquaculture Practices, despite the fact that their labor and worker health standards are sub-par according to the Solidarity Center (check out pages 14-16 in that last link to find out more). But this latest news of a fishmeal certification program really takes the cake—the green-washed cake, that is. Read more…
