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A shellfish diet might be even more carbon neutral than going vegan
| Your lobster bisque is almost as bad: The motors used to check lobster pots burn up a lot of gas. “Lobster has a terrible carbon footprint,” says Ray Hilborn, one of the researchers responsible for the study. On the other side of the scale were mollusk aquaculture — oysters, mussels, scallops, and clams — which are wonderfully efficient, and small wild fish, which don’t take much energy to gather up.
| About half the greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture come from farmers clearing forests. If you include the land needed to feed the animals, it significantly increases the emissions released in livestock production — making fish look better by comparison. And if you consider the type of land being cleared for farms, it downgrades the sustainability of shrimp farms in Southeast Asia.
| The study was supported by a grant from the Seafood Industry Research Fund. Funding can often subtly (or not so subtly) influence science, but in this case it’s unlikely to have done so, given the study was comparing the relative merits of different sectors of the seafood industry.
“A real surprise to me was how low the impact of salmon farming was,” study author Hilborn says.
| “I’ve done a lot of work with Alaska fishers and they basically hate salmon farming, but it looks like it’s not so bad.”
For a long time, people have been saying that seafood could be a sustainable solution as we try to feed a more crowded planet. But it’s important to discriminate between the good and the “very, very bad.” This one has a little star — it’s basically carbon neutral. And this one has a little car — it’s a fossil-fueled fish. Stay away from the fossil-fueled fish.
| https://grist.org/article/a-shellfish-diet-might-be-even-better-than-going-vegan/
| Salmon is god-tier seafood.
Feels good man.
| Won't a diet of mainly seafood lead to mercury poisoning?
| >>323885
Not really a problem:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_in_fish
More like a precaution. You're very unlikely to die from mercury poisoning unless you're a child or otherwise unhealthy to begin with.
| The only reason for this article is to rub it in the face of stuck up vegans who brag about having an environmentally friendly diet.
| >>>324170
The problem with the bragging Vegan meme at this point, is that the Vegans it applies to are the ones who exist in the minds of those who make said memes.
| Veganism should be classified an eating disorder and mental illness in all but the infinitesimally small percentage who are actually gluten intolerant.
| >>326051 the issue with that is people actually act like that
I have an aunt that will not. Shut. Up. About magical fucking Kangen water. She's also kind of a turbo bitch.
| Just let people eat how the fuck they want, you're infinitely more of an asshole for mocking someone's shitty vegan diet than vegans are for being proud of their self control.
| >>327031 vegans act smug and entitled about their diet as if they're a messiah. I like my steak. I like my meatballs. My fried chicken. Let me eat what I want.
| >>326979
But being a massive fucking annoyance is a staple of suburban culture and life, assuming you live in a suburb, I don't know what causes it, social alienation from living in a highly passive aggressive environment maybe?
Considering she clinging on to "special water" and possibly "super foods" like Kale, to me sounds like an aging person chasing after youth and vigor, although I don't know your situation, I have to ask (mostly to confirm my biases), am I close?
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| Not all fish are created equal when it comes to their impact on the climate. In the prophetic words of Dr. Seuss: “Some are glad. And some are sad. And some are very, very bad.”
A new study takes a rare look at the carbon emissions that come with your choice of seafood. And there are a lot of surprises. Farming catfish creates more emissions than farming chicken, while eating shellfish is even more climate-friendly than a purely vegan diet, according to the study.