Pete C. wrote:
> "Jean B." wrote:
>> modom (palindrome guy) wrote:
>>> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/18/bu...l?ref=business
>>>
>>> It just ain't right.
>> Sure it is. Farmed fish isn't right.
>
> So you'd also suggest we should subsist on nuts and berries foraged in
> the wild?

Obviously, that is not practical.

BS, farmed fish, farmed (ranched) cattle, farmed vegetables,
> etc. are all quite right.

That depends.... For one thing, how are those things produced?
How do the nutritional benefits compare? What has human
intervention introduced? Also, what is the impact on the environment?
>
>> I suppose, though, that
>> given the condition of the seas
>
> Certainly farming fish can relieve some of the pressure on wild stocks.

I agree--but again, I question what is in these things? How has
farming altered them? What is the impact on the environment?
>
>> and the population of the world,
>> it may be necessary.
>
> That population issue should resolve, at least temporarily, when we
> finally get the next pandemic, be it bird flu or whatever.

Or it will resolve as result of food and water shortages and other
disasters.
--
Jean B.