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From Sea to CAFO? Chickens, Pigs Eat Anchovies |
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Written by Kiki Hubbard
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Wednesday, 02 July 2008 |
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We know that livestock raised at the industrial scale are often fed strange stuff, like antibiotic-laced grain and animal byproducts. But news that poultry and hogs raised in confined operations are fed 17 percent of the wild fish caught each year (seriously) raises eyebrows for other reasons, like the indisputable fact that some fish populations are severly depleted. (The same argument could be made for the nonrenwable rate at which we use topsoil growing grain for animals, but that's another post.)
According to a guest columnist in Grist:
Each year we feed 14 million tons of wild-caught fish (including anchovies, sardines, mackerel, and herring) to pigs and chickens around the globe...Pigs and chickens eat double the amount of fish that Japan consumes annually and six times more seafood than the entire U.S. population eats each year.
Protein is an important part of any diet and often comes at a high premium. Except, perhaps, when derived from a factory farm.
Source: Grist
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