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Pastimes : FISH FARMS NEED TO BE THE SIZE OF COUNTRIES -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: maceng2 who wrote (53)	1/27/2004 1:52:58 AM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 405

KFC Turns to Fish in Vietnam Tue January 27, 2004 12:57 AM ET [note: maybe I need to talk to a chain like KFC, they like to think on large scale international operations -g- pb] reuters.com HANOI (Reuters) - U.S. fast food chain KFC said on Tuesday it had closed almost all its chicken outlets in Vietnam and would switch the chain to a fish menu, after a bird flu outbreak that has killed six people in the country. Eight KFC restaurants were shut Monday in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam's commercial center, which has banned the sale of poultry and culled more than two million chickens. "It has been very hard for us," Nguyen Chi Kien, KFC Vietnam deputy country director, told Reuters. Kien said KFC, a subsidiary of Yum Brands Inc, would reopen its eateries at the end of this week and offer fish, including fish burgers. KFC, one of the communist country's few international fast food chains, along with the Philippines' Jollibee Foods Corp., operates nine restaurants in southern Vietnam. Chicken has also disappeared from upscale restaurants, hotels and homes in big cities in the Southeast Asian country but is still widely available in the countryside and at street stalls. Five children were among the six people killed in Vietnam by the bird flu virus, which has spread to many Asian countries. KFC, which had been using around 30,000 locally farmed chickens per month, said it might import frozen chickens from North America to replace local supplies.

To: maceng2 who wrote (53)	1/27/2004 1:26:30 PM
From: Kenneth Kirk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 405

It must cost more to catch a load of fish, to feed to fish, instead of letting them do it themselves. Sure... and farming generally is inefficient, because it would cost more to plant those seeds, than to just let the wild plants grow themselves and harvest them. That assumption didn't work for the hunter-gatherer societies once other cultures discovered agriculture, and it won't work now. Here in Alaska, commercial fishing prices have dropped over the last decade to where it just isn't very profitable to commercial fish any more, and it's because of the more efficient aquaculture in other countries. We've resisted it for years, and now we're paying for it.