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About a fifth of the world’s annual wild fish catch, amounting to about 18m tonnes of wild fish a year, is used to make fishmeal and fish oil, of which about 70% goes to fish farms

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/feb/11/global-salmon-farming-harming-marine-life-and-costing-billions-in-damage

Among other environment impacts too. All kinds of fish farms dumps lage amounts of waste into the environment

For a world annual shrimp production [in fish farms] of around 5 million tons, 5.5 million tons of organic matter, 360,000 tons of nitrogen, and 125,000 tons of phosphorous are annually discharged to the environment

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3353277/

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If people could live on a grain of rice a day, someone would find a way to complain about it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

complain =/= near extinction events

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Lay the blame on politicians denying climate change and large corporations with next to no obligation to operate in an environmentally friendly way. Laying the blame on average people living average lives, most of whom are just barely scraping by, is just defending the rich and powerful so that they can pass the buck on to the rest of us like they always do.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Going vegan can reduce your grocery bill by 30%

And we are all personally responsible for the animals we eat. Meat eating is a problem with our culture, not just a problem with capitalism, and we're all responsible for changing the culture.