Category: Uncategorized

SALMON FARMS POLLUTE LOCHS."Pesticides from 12 salmon farms have contaminated lochs around Scotland's coast in breach of safety limits, according to the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa). There, levels of a pesticide called teflubenzuron were up to 455 times higher than Sepa's environmental quality standards in 2012."" " http://lnkd.in/d4zjbmd View in LinkedIn

LAB MEAT OPTIMIST. "In-Vitro Meat will be socially transformative, like automobiles, cinema, vaccines. Slow-grown red meat & poultry will vanish from the marketplace, similar to whale oil's flame out when kerosene outshone it in the 1870's. Predictors believe that IVM will sell for half the cost of its murdered rivals. This will grind the $2 trillion global live-meat industry to a halt (500 billion pounds of meat are gobbled annually; this is expected to double by 2050)."" " http://lnkd.in/dWmwJkB View in LinkedIn

ADVOCATES OPPOSE OPEN NET SALMON FARMING as unsustainable; levels of toxic pesticides (to deal with the serious parasite issues) are much higher in (some) farmed fish. Read some interesting articles on the subject." " http://lnkd.in/dn5PcKahttp://lnkd.in/dzrRRT4http://lnkd.in/d6Zs-jH View in LinkedIn

BIOREACTOR MEAT EFFICIENT. "It has been claimed that, conditions being ideal, two months of in vitro meat production could deliver up to 50,000 tons of meat from ten pork muscle cells. In vitro meat may be produced as strips of muscle fibre, which grow through the fusion of precursor cells – either embryonic stem cells or specialised satellite cells found in muscle tissue. This type of meat can be cultured in a bioreactor."" " http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_vitro_meat View in LinkedIn

"FARMED FISH are kept in concentrations never seen in the wild (e.g. 50,000 fish in a 2-acre (8,100 m2) area) with each fish occupying less room than the average bathtub. This can cause several forms of pollution. Packed tightly, fish rub against each other and the sides of their cages, damaging their fins and tails and becoming sickened with various diseases and infections"" " http://lnkd.in/d-UTaTT View in LinkedIn

TEST TUBE MEAT? Oxford University study (2011) "estimated that cultured meat uses far less energy than most other forms, apart from chicken, and some 45 per cent less energy than beef, the most environmentally destructive meat." "They also found that synthetic meat needs 99 per cent less land than livestock, between 82 and 96 per cent less water, and produces between 78 and 95 per cent less greenhouse gas. In terms of relative environmental damage, there was no contest."" " http://lnkd.in/d-KqFJR View in LinkedIn

BOOMING FISH FARMING MARKET. "The global returns for fish farming recorded by the FAO in 2008 totalled 33.8 million tonnes worth about $US 60 billion."" " http://lnkd.in/d-UTaTT View in LinkedIn

TEST TUBE MEAT DEBUT. In 2013, the first proof-of-concept for cultured meat was made public with a taste test, with money from Google's Sergey Brin. While many cited the high cost of this single artificial burger, this was sheer nonsense, as commercial production would change the economics significantly. The question is, will this be a serious player in future meat production? " " http://lnkd.in/dk9fVQM View in LinkedIn

AWARD WINNING HUMANE FISH NETS. "Dan Watson devised a system based on a series of escape rings for fish – which can be fitted to a fisherman's trawler net – in response to the problem of overfishing and the controversial and wasteful practice of throwing away healthy and edible fish or other creatures as so-called bycatch." Watson started SafetyNet Technologies to try and commercialize his invention. " " http://lnkd.in/d5Y45pzhttp://www.sntech.co.uk/ View in LinkedIn

FISHING WASTE. "In the past 50 years, the worlds fish catch grew more than fourfoldfrom roughly 20 million tons to 90 million tons. During the same period, the variety of fish species dropped by as much as 50 percent. Ninety percent of large predator fish species such as cod, shark, and bluefin tuna have disappeared. Industrial fishing generates about 25 million tons of unwanted by-catchfish and marine mammals that are dumped overboard, dead or dying." http://lnkd.in/d9N5m4Ehttp://lnkd.in/dVRfrF7 View in LinkedIn