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The Downside of the World’s Love Affair with Shrimp [1]

Submitted by Don Fitz on Sun, 04/28/2019 - 9:32am

By: 
Martha Rosenberg
Topic: 
Biodiversity / Biodevastation [2]

More than half of imported shrimp is “farmed”—grown in huge industrial tanks or shallow, manmade ponds that can stretch for acres. At least 150 shrimp can be crowded into a single square meter, where they’re fed commercial pellets, sometimes laced with antibiotics [3] to ward off disease. What isn’t eaten can sink to the bottom and rot, creating a putrid soup of feed and fecal matter.

http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/26541 [4]
Tags: 
Amoxycillin [5]
organophosphates [6]
Early Mortality Syndrome [7]
white-leg shrimp [8]

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[2] http://www.greensocialthought.org/topics/biodiversity-biodevastation
[3] http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/26541#
[4] http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/26541
[5] http://www.greensocialthought.org/keyword-tags/amoxycillin
[6] http://www.greensocialthought.org/keyword-tags/organophosphates
[7] http://www.greensocialthought.org/keyword-tags/early-mortality-syndrome
[8] http://www.greensocialthought.org/keyword-tags/white-leg-shrimp