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To: Grainne who wrote (92157)	12/30/2004 1:24:00 AM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

There may be HUGE environmental concerns about factory fish and shrimp farming and I agree the food we encounter at the local grocery store is not top notch. You should be proud to live in a country where you can do what selfishly pleases you. For most of human history people could only do what selfishly pleased their king or ruler. If you expect people to follow your lead in being environmentally sensitive you better appeal to their pleasure center because it is what we understand best.

To: Grainne who wrote (92157)	12/30/2004 6:11:38 AM
From: redfish	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Shrimp are the only things that I do feel guilty about eating. The method of catching them is extremely wasteful. They are caught by dragging large nets through the school of shrimp. As everything that swims in the sea finds shrimp as scrumptious as we do, the nets catch a lot of fish and sea turtles in addition to the shrimp. This is called "bycatch." Typically a shrimper catches 10 pounds of bycatch for every pound of shrimp. Since the heads of the shrimp aren't eaten, the real ratio is probably closer to 14 pounds of fish harvested for every pound of shrimp that gets to the table. The bycatch, which is killed in the process of netting the shrimp, is discarded in the ocean by the shrimp boats because they have only so much room in the hold, and the shrimp are much more valuable than the bycatch. It is as if for every chicken that gets to market, 10 ducks are killed and thrown away ... the method of harvesting makes no sense.