This is not just bad from an ecological point-of-view, it's terrifying from a public health point-of-view.
A mix of big business, ineffective and inadequate regulation, and consumers' lack of giving a damn about where their food comes from has created a situation where virtually all shrimp you might consider eating could contain antibiotic-resistant bacteria. That. Could. Kill. You.
Seriously...this is bad.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-12-15/how-antibiotic-tainted-seafood-from-china-ends-up-on-your-table
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ReplyDeleteThe Swedish Society for Nature Conservation made this video in 2011 for a campaign they had against tiger prawns.
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All of that Asia seafood thats grown in farms, use antibiotics to keep the creatures from getting disease in the close quarters they are raised in.
ReplyDeleteAnd chicken
ReplyDeletenewscientist.com - Antibiotic resistance will hit a terrible tipping point in 2017
At. Asian. Restaurant.
ReplyDeletePray for my immune system
Shrimp was a big nope on the pad thai.
ReplyDeleteCraig Froehle saved my life
*rimshot
ReplyDeleteAny seafood caught off the east coast of the US is likely contaminated with heavy metals from prior years of coal energy production and petroleum runoff from roads into our rivers. I remember the days of "Acid Rain".
ReplyDeleteAnd here's the typical response of a Trump voter, "eh...Something kills everybody someday....."
ReplyDeleteJoseph Milan
ReplyDeleteTrump voters don't believe human technology is capable of polluting the ocean any more than they believe we can pollute the atmosphere. My position is exactly the opposite.
I stopped eating all Seafood including tuna
ReplyDeleteThe antibiotics in the meat industry makes seafood look healthy.
ReplyDeleteMac Baird au contrare mon frare, there is a lot of meat out there that is antibiotic free
ReplyDeleteAntibiotic free comes with higher prices and lower demand, as well as diminishing fish populations in the wild.
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Mac Baird I don't know where you shop but in most grocery stores, I'll take that back, in every single grocery store in my area have a large variety of antibiotic-free chicken, beef, and pork. The prices aren't that much higher. Fish contains not just Mercury but also other trace elements that are highly poisonous. Modern man has turned the oceans into cesspools. The larger the fish the more concentrated those poisons. Tuna is one of the worst and you can look it up, the research is all there online.
ReplyDeleteWhen fish or animals are farmed in concentrated populations, antibiotics are necessary to prevent disease. Farming has become necessary due to depletion of wild populations and higher cost.
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Mac Baird It's kind of a no win situation. We are over fishing. And the rate at which antibiotic's are becoming ineffective, is alarming.
ReplyDeleteJohn Bailey
ReplyDeleteWhen you double a species population three times in two lifetimes, there are going to be consequences for the balance in the rest of the biosphere. We have exceeded Mother Nature's ability to feed us naturally with technology we can no longer control. Nature is designed to counter antibiotics by evolving immunity, and those pathogens then spread throughout the biosphere to eventually correct the imbalance, in this case, by significantly reducing the Human population. Overpopulation by any species eventually destroys that species, either through disease or depletion of resources. I started college in 1966, majoring in Marine Microbiology and minoring in Biochemistry, and this was one of the first concepts I learned in Microbiology 101. Unfortunately, my careers decided to follow a different path, but Oceanography was my first passion.