How to Be a Conscious Eater
for example, can reduce bycatch and seafloor damage. These are some of the reasons why Seafood Watch’s rating system includes th ...
If you’re unsure where an item stands in Seafood Watch’s book, rely on labels from third-party certifiers. For everything wild c ...
For farmed fish, look for Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) certification. Their strict standards minimize the impact of fis ...
29 FARMED FISH: YAY OR NAY? Y ou can think of a typical fish farm much like a cattle feedlot: Too many creatures crammed into to ...
what the farmed salmon are fed, which is a face-scrunching blend of pellets made from fish oil and fish meal (derived from large ...
Depleting wild fish stocks for feed. Producing fish feed is extremely inefficient. It takes more than 15 pounds of wild fish to ...
affect wild fish and their habitats. Examples of species routinely raised in this way in the United States are Arctic char, catf ...
30 SHRIMP + SLAVERY = ONE HOT MESS I n the United States, it’s common to think of slavery as a scar of the past, a dark regressi ...
no sleep. Often there’s just one meal per day, of questionable nutritional quality and food safety. Sadly, seafood is by no mean ...
caught my attention in the months afterward, as did “Thai seafood: Are the prawns on your plate still fished by slaves?” years l ...
aimed at a business audience, you can still use it to learn about the human rights track record of a fishery before you buy. If ...
31 EGGS & CHOLESTEROL: WHAT GIVES? E ggs are beloved by many people, in many cultures. So it was a pretty big downer when th ...
instead helps make cell membranes. These are mega-import- ant wrappers around our nerves. Cholesterol also helps the body produc ...
than people who don’t eat eggs.” Nada. A professor and the for- mer chairman of the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard T. H. ...
what else might you factor into the decision to eat them or not? Two main things: First, on the bright side, eggs score high for ...
32 THE LAUNDRY LIST OF EGG LABELS F rankly, people do judge a book by its cover. In the grocery store, you’ll see egg cartons sw ...
producers who have gone well beyond cage-free or free-range or ensuring appropriate feed. It means animals are given the freedom ...
For assurance of access to the outdoors or more extensive lifestyle enhancements for the birds, look for the aforemen- tioned an ...
food animals parts of other animals. Although this issue isn’t as relevant in the egg industry as it is in meat and poultry, it ...
33 SUPERBUGS AND THE FOOD SUPPLY A s I write, I’ve got two buns in the oven. A year before you read these words, I’ll be swept t ...
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