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Eat less of it and buy the expensive stuff. Expensive = better margin = less fish needed to pay the wages, and 99% of the time expensive = high end sustainable
by lm28469 4y ago
Eat less of it and buy the expensive stuff. Expensive = better margin = less fish needed to pay the wages, and 99% of the time expensive = high end sustainable
It's not bulletproof but it's a good rule of thumb, I eat fish once in a blue moon, last time it was a can of "traditionally hand fished" tuna, 40 euros a kilo
If it's cheap as fuck there is no way it's sustainable, you're either abusing nature or fellow humans, or both
- peanuty1 4y agoI'm less bothered with "abusing" fellow humans than destroying nature.
- lm28469 4y agoWe're part of nature. If the "us vs them" is at that level now we're fucked
- toomuchtodo 4y agoCan we not admit we’re fucked and any effort at this point is to take the edge off the pain we’re going to experience globally over the next century or two?
- modo_mario 4y agoA quick google top result check shows: "all natural phenomena and plant and animal life, as distinct from man and his creations" I dare say that's the way it was used and intended so semantics doesn't really bring anyone forward here. I'm also not really sure what you're alluding to with the "us vs then" bit.
- red-iron-pine 4y agoThere is no shortage of humans. Arguably too many. There is a shortage of nature. On top of that, the ecosystems are changing, and once they're gone they're probably not coming back. We could lose half of the population tomorrow and still, eventually, hit that predicted 10 billion souls -- it would just take a lil longer. If WA and BC turn into chaparral things like Salmon and Snow Crab ain't gonna live there any more, and never live there again.
- lm28469 4y agoYou make it sound like it's a maths problem, and that we have to abuse humans or nature but must chose at least one All I'm saying is if you stop eating cheap sea food we won't have to send underpaid humans to risk their lives to catch them. Put you money where your mouth is
- jurimasa 4y agoThat's a nice Malthusian fragment of excrement.
- giraffe_lady 4y agoSlave labor is used to harvest seafood cheap seafood to a very significant extent.
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- mech765 4y agoMy intuition is that small fish are more sustainable than large fish. It's harder to overfish sardines than tuna because their lifecycle is short and there are a whole bunch of them. Not sure if my intuition holds up really.