Pete C. wrote:
> "Jean B." wrote:
>> 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?
>
> The same way we're been farming for millennia.
Like with antibiotics and hormones?
>
>> How do the nutritional benefits compare?
>
> The same as any other source. I take it you're one of the folks who
> believes the myth that "organic" produce is more nutritious than
> conventional.
Sometimes. I do tend to gravitate toward organic produce. It's
also a matter of what is good for this planet.
>
>> What has human
>> intervention introduced?
>
> Efficiency.
True--but at what cost?
>
>> Also, what is the impact on the environment?
>
> It supports overpopulation.
Not following. Current agricultural etc. practices do support
overpopulation. That's a problem, which will come home to roost.
>
>>>> 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?
>
> Protein and nutrients.
And what else?
>
>> How has
>> farming altered them?
>
> It hasn't, that's a myth.
I don't believe that.
>
>> What is the impact on the environment?
>
> It supports overpopulation.
And you think that's good?
>
>>>> 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.
>
> Disasters like failing schools producing a population that lacks the
> critical thinking skills to research and analyze actual facts, and
> instead relies on unsubstantiated rumors.
I gather that's a comment directed at me. Well, we shall see....
--
Jean B.