New York Times columnist Mark Bittman last week published a recipe for red snapper (listed as “avoid” by the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch program) and was quite rightly called out by avenging Grist author Tom Philpott. Philpott was, I would contend, overly generous toward Bittman, who described the posting of a red snapper recipe […]
Everybody sells it. But farmed salmon gets a big fat “avoid” from marine environmental groups such as the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch program. The reasons are many: * Salmon are carnivorous. It takes three pounds of fish feed to create one pound of salmon, meaningstressed fish populations are being further exploited to create farmed […]
Studies indicate that the world’s fisheries may be facing total collapse by 2048. Some 80 percent of commercial fish are already being exploited beyond or near their ability to sustain themselves. So imagine a world in which most of the world’s governments are actively promoting the pillaging of oceans and even the best experts in […]
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