“You can cruise the world's millions of omega-3 Web sites without encountering any reflections about where these prized fatty acids are coming from and at what social or environmental cost. For some people, what goes into their bodies has become an overriding obsession. Perhaps we are witnessing a successor to the Me Generation--namely, the Don't Care About the Rest of the World as Long as I Have a Spa and Some Omega-3 Fatty Acids Generation. Let's call it the Omega-3 Generation for short. Or is that thought just too depressing?” PeopleWorldLongBodyCareSocialMillionsGenerationsCostReflectionEnvironmentalDon't CareObsessionDepressingSiteAcidCruiseSuccessorsSpasFattyFatty Acids Author:Charles Clover
“Fish farming, even with conventional techniques, changes fish within a few generations from an animal like a wild buffalo or a wildebeest to the equivalent of a domestic cow.” ChangeAnimalGenerationsFishesTechniqueCowsConventionalFarmingSalmonBuffaloOverfishing Book:The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and what We Eat Source: The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and what We Eat
“Domesticated salmon, after several generations, are fat, listless things that are good at putting on weight, not swimming up fast-moving rivers. When they get into a river and breed with wild fish, they can damage the wild fish's prospects of surviving to reproduce.” MovingGenerationsRiversWeightFishesFatsDamageSwimmingSurvivingBreedingProspectsSalmon Book:The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and what We Eat Source: The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and what We Eat