Monday, March 7, 2010
"The average shrimptrawling operation throws 80 to 90 percent of the sea animals it captures overboard, dead or dying, as bycatch. (Endangered species amount to much of this bycatch.) Shrimp account for only 2 percent of global seafood by weight, but shrimp trawling accounts for 33 percent of global bycatch. We tend not to think about this because we tend not to know about it. What if there were labeling on our food letting us know how many animals were killed to bring our desired animal to our plate? So, with trawled shrimp from Indonesia, for example, the label might read: 26 pounds of other sea animals were killed and tossed back into the ocean for every 1 pound of this shrimp." - Eating Animals
This lent season try giving up meat (including fish) every Monday and Friday. You'll be sure to drop a few pounds and become a healthier person from the inside out! Not to mention the positive impact it will have on the environment and the number of animals lives it will save!!
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