25 de julho de 2009

Mais notícias da aquacultura...

Não tenho dúvidas que grande parte do consumo de peixe, no futuro, passará pelo fornecimento da aquacultura - esperemos, no entanto, que não seja deste tipo (ver, também, aqui):


"Ninety percent of the salmon consumed in the United States comes from factory-style farms—most of it imported. Until very recently, our biggest supplier was Chile—whose salmon industry is in a state of collapse, ravaged by a virus called “infectious salmon anemia.”

Like U.S. factory meat farms, Chile’s salmon cages veritably runneth over with antibiotics. Earlier this year, the Pew Environmental Group obtained some damning FDA documents about the Chilean salmon industry. The documents revealed that: [...]"
[continuar a ler em Chilean salmon industry plunges into an abyss of pesticides and antibiotics - Grist"

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